Publications

Published work

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and essays on queer subjectivity, South African visual culture, and state violence.

2025
Book chapter2025

Performing the Archive: Athi-Patra Ruga and the Afterlives of John Vorster Square

Brian Michael Müller. Queer Kinships in Contemporary African Art (ed. forthcoming).
2024
Journal article2024

Reading Beiruth: Semiotics, Site, and the Persistence of Apartheid Space

Brian Michael Müller. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity.
2023
Journal article2023

Photography, Policing, and the Queer Subject in Late Apartheid South Africa

Brian Michael Müller. Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.
Conference paper2023

The Chalk Outline and the Pigeon: Reading Ruga at John Vorster Square

Brian Michael Müller. Performance Studies international (PSi) Annual Conference.
2022
Conference paper2022

Situated Knowledges: Auto-ethnography as Method in Post-Apartheid Cultural Analysis

Brian Michael Müller. African Studies Association Annual Meeting.
Working paper2022

Queer Geographies of Johannesburg: Notes Toward a Method

Brian Michael Müller. AGI Working Papers, University of Cape Town.
2019
Journal article2019

Under Priscilla's Eyes: State Violence Against South Africa's Queer Community During and After Apartheid

Brian Michael Müller. Image & Text, no. 33, 1–23.
DOI
Journal article2019

Queer Bodies, Public Space, and the Limits of the Rainbow Nation

Brian Michael Müller. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.
DOI