Su Montoya is a lecturer for the English language and American Studies at the University of Mannheim. She was in the BA program at the University of Chicago and studied Anthropology, Literature, and Human Behavior and received her MA in Social Anthropology and Sociology from the University of Heidelberg.

She teaches courses like Academic Writing (wissenschaftliches Schreiben), Translation E-G (Übersetzung E-G), Visual Culture (visuelle Kultur), Material Culture (Sachkultur), Body, Gender / Transgender, and Biopolitics.