Kutzinski also directs the Alexander von Humboldt in English (HiE) project, a collaboration between Vanderbilt and the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

Among other things, the concept and practice of "New World writing" she analyzed in writings by the work of Puerto Rican-American modernist William Carlos Williams, African American poet Jay Wright, and Cuban poet-activist Guillén led to the New World Studies series at the University Press at Virginia,[6] which published Sugar’s Secret as the series’ inaugural volume.

Rachel Farebrother praised the book for its "rigorous archival research", its "comprehensive inventory of translations of Hughes’s writings into Spanish", and a "truly internationalist scope that never underestimates the importance of specific historical and linguistic contexts.

[9] With Writing-between-Worlds: TransArea Studies and the Literatures without a Fixed Abode,[10] her translation of a monograph by Ottmar Ette, Kutzinski, broadened the scope of her previous transnational work on the Americas.

[11] Kutzinski’s work on the Prussian scientific traveler Alexander von Humboldt’s writings on the Americas is another part of her turn toward transatlantic contexts.