Susanne Jany studied Literature and Cultural History and Theory in Berlin, Gothenburg, and London. Between 2012 and 2015 she was a member of the PhD Network »Das Wissen der Literatur« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and in 2013 she was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. In her dissertation, which was finished in 2017, she investigated the interrelation between the spatial disposition of late nineteenth century functional buildings and the work processes taking place within them. Since 2015 she is a member of the project Self-Moving Materials at Image Knowledge Gestaltung and since 2016 she is a research fellow at the Department of Cultural History and Theory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.