Dr Susana Molins Lliteras

Projects

Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (2026–2032)

• 2026–2028: Principal Investigator of the project IRP11:
  Scribes and Scribal Practices in the ‘Timbuktu ‘Archive’

Research Interests 

• African Studies
• West African Manuscript Culture
• Critical Archive Studies
• African Scribal Cultures

CV

Susana Molins Lliteras obtained her PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Cape Town (UCT, South Africa) in 2015, after completing an MPhil in African Studies in 2005 from the same institution. Her dissertation offered an archival biography of the Fondo Kati, a private family manuscript collection in Timbuktu. From 2005, she was a researcher and coordinator at the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project organising conferences, workshops and seminars on West African book and manuscript history. From 2017, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at UCT shifting her focus to the ‘Timbuktu archive’ in public life. She has published on the archives of Timbuktu – with a focus on the making of collections, marginal and paratextual annotations, and the problematics of digitisation – as well as the social history of a West African Sufi movement in South Africa.