He is the author of Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (Georgia, 2012), which offers the first literary history of the Civil War South, and the co-author of Writing About American Literature: A Guide for Students (Norton, 2014). In 2010, Hutchison received a UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award and, in 2015, a President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award.