Brian Michael Müller
Brian Michael Müller is an independent academic and PhD candidate at the University of Cape Town, working at the intersection of queer studies, visual culture, and the politics of post-apartheid South Africa.
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Independent Academic & PhD Candidate
School for African & Gender Studies, Anthropology & Linguistics · University of Cape Town
- —Queer theory and sexuality studies
- —South African visual culture and performance art
- —State violence, policing, and the politics of memory
- —Post-apartheid politics and the 'rainbow nation'
- —Critical geography, space, and the built environment
- —Semiotics, phenomenology, and auto-ethnography
Recent scholarship
- Performing the Archive: Athi-Patra Ruga and the Afterlives of John Vorster SquareBrian Michael Müller. Queer Kinships in Contemporary African Art (ed. forthcoming)
- Under Priscilla's Eyes: State Violence Against South Africa's Queer Community During and After ApartheidBrian Michael Müller. Image & Text
- Queer Bodies, Public Space, and the Limits of the Rainbow NationBrian Michael Müller. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
- GALA Queer Archive
- International Association for Visual Culture
- African Studies Association
- Performance Studies international (PSi)
- International Geographical Union — Commission on Gender and Geography
- New article in the Journal of Comparative Political Economy
"Regulatory Drift and Institutional Repair in Post-Crisis Financial Governance" is now published.
- Forthcoming monograph
"Slow Institutions" will be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2026.