Susana Molins-Lliteras is an Associate Researcher based at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). For over a decade, she has been a researcher and coordinator at the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project, and an integral part of the Project’s events and output, organising conferences, workshops and seminars on West African
book and manuscript history. Her current book project, based on her doctoral
dissertation, presents an archival biography the Fondo Kati, a private family manuscript collection in Timbuktu, elucidating how historical knowledge in and about Timbuktu is continuously produced, reproduced and refashioned. She has published on the archives of Timbuktu and on the social history of a West African Sufi movement in South Africa.

For the CallFront Project, she draws on her experience working with marginalia on the manuscripts of Timbuktu as well as her interest and study of regional knowledge transmission practices, drawing from her collaboration with local scholars.