Lucia Thesen is an associate professor emerita in the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town. She has an enduring interest in writing and the politics of knowledge-making, having worked in the academic literacies field of practice at the University of Cape Town for over 30 years. Teaching and research in this context have been over-determined by approaches that work around what Lillis and Scott call ‘identify and induct’ principles. Lucia is interested in alternatives that challenge the hegemony of the way research writing and knowledge-making congeal in the imaginary of the formal archive. Her most recent publication is Knowledge-making from a postgraduate writers’ circle: A southern reflectory (2014, Multilingual Matters).