For the 1985/1986 academic year, Küchler held a "New Blood Lectureship" in the history of non-western art at the School of Art History and Music of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.[1] From 1986 to 1990, she was an assistant professor of anthropology and art history at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States.[1] In 1991, she joined University College London (UCL) in England as a part-time lecturer in anthropology.[1][3] She was a full-time lecturer from 1994 to 1999, a senior lecturer from 1999 to 2002, and a Reader from 2002 to 2006.[1] In September 2006, she was appointed Professor of Material Culture.[3][2] In 2010, she became head of the Department of Anthropology at UCL; she will hold the post for ten years.[3]
Küchler, Susanne; Miller, Daniel, eds. (2006). Clothing as material culture. Oxford: Berg. ISBN978-1845200664.
Küchler, Susanne; Eimke, Andrea (2009). Tivaivai: The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands. London: British Museum Press. ISBN978-0714125800.
Tilley, Christopher; Keane, Webb; Küchler, Susanne; Rowlands, Mike; Spyer, Patricia (2013). Handbook of material culture. London: SAGE. ISBN978-1446270561.
Drazin, Adam; Küchler, Susanne, eds. (2015). The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and Society. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN978-1472592644.