College of Arts and Science Vanderbilt University

Vera M. Kutzinski

Works in Progress

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes in the Americas: Poetry and Translation.

This monograph examines Hughes’s translations of Latin American poets such as Nicolás Guillén and Gabriela Mistral along with the Spanish-language translations of his own poetry that have circulated in Latin America since 1930.

Web resource for researchers: Langston Hughes’s poetry in Spanish-language translations.


Alexander von Humboldt

Since 2007, director and co-editor of the Alexander von Humboldt in English (HiE) Project.

Alexander von Humboldt’s Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Transl. from the French by John Ryan Poynter. With Annotations by Giorleny D. Altamirano Rayo and Tobias Kraft. Ed. with an Introduction by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011-12 (forthcoming).

Alexander von Humboldt’s Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain. Ed. with an Introduction by Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013 (forthcoming).


Alexander von Humboldt and the Hemisphere. Ed. with Ottmar Ette and Laura Dassow Walls (under review).