Alan Muller

Engagements

Memberships

HELTSASA: Higher Education & Teaching Association of Southern Africa: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
2024-11-01 to present

EASA: Education Association of South Africa: Cape Town, Western Cape, ZA
2024-01 to present

SAAALP: South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners: Pretoria, Gauteng, ZA
2023-01 to present

Guest Lectures

2025. Zooming in on South Africa. Guest lecture, University of Bonn. Online.

2024. Zooming in on South Africa. Guest lecture, University of Bonn. Online.

Conference Presentations

2025, August. with de Waal, M. Scaffolding Social Annotation for Academic Reading: A Framework for Supporting Comprehension and Critical Engagement in Academic Literacy. ICETOL: International Conference on Educational Technology and Online Learning.

2024, September. Hearing Voices: Reflections on Incorporating Multilingualism and Linguistic Citizenship in an Academic Literacies Course. First International Conference of the South African Association of Academic Literacy Practitioners (SAAALP).

2024, January. with Rambiritch, A. Writing Centre 2.0: Towards Improving Student Writing through Consultant and GenAI Chatbot Collaboration. EASA Conference 2024.

2023, August. with Eybers, O. Opportunities and Pitfalls of GenAI Pedagogy: A View from Academic Literacies in South Africa. Flexible Futures 2023.

2016, July. Do We (All) Write What We Like?: Biko’s Lie and the Speculative Mode in South African Writing. 17th Triennial Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Conference.

2015, June. Half ’n Half: Mytho-Historical and Spatial Entanglements in Charlie Human’s Apocalypse Now Now and Kill Baxter. Swiss South African Joint Research Programme (SSAJRP) Workshop.

2014, April. A Handful of Spaghetti: The Significance and Entanglement of Space, Place and Identity in Imraan Coovadia’s The Wedding. 40th African Languages Association (ALA) Conference: Texts, Modes and Repertoires of Living in and Beyond the Shadows of Apartheid.

2014, March. A Handful of Spaghetti: The Significance and Entanglement of Space, Place and Identity in Imraan Coovadia’s The Wedding. Swiss South African Joint Research Programme Workshop.

External Moderation

WITS University

2023-2025. School of Education. EDUC 2180a: Academic Literacies for Educators

University of KwaZulu-Natal

2024. Department of English. ENG306H2: South/African Literatures

2024-2025. Department of English. ENG308H1: Postmodernisms/Gender

Teaching

LST 133: Academic Literacies for the Natural Sciences in the Extended Programmes (University of Pretoria)

LST 143: Academic Literacies for the Natural Sciences in the Extended Programmes (University of Pretoria)

JUR120: Academic Literacies for Law (University of Pretoria)

1EN533: Modernist Literature (University of Zululand)

1EN531: English Renaissance Literature (University of Zululand)

1ENG212: English 2 Part B (University of Zululand)

Literary Tourism in South Africa (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Research

Muller, A. 2024. Poetry in Motion: The Taxi and Taxi Poetry as Sites of Mobility and Creativity in Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute for Taxi Poetry. Matatu. 55(2):358–375. DOI: 10.1163/18757421-bja00016.

Eybers, O.O., & Muller, A. (Eds.), 2024. AI Approaches to Literacy in Higher Education. Hershey: IGI Global.

Eybers, O. & Muller, A. 2024. Left, Right then Left Again: Educators at the Intersection of Global Citizenship Education, Technology and Academic Literacies. Journal of Creative Communications. 19(1):09732586231199549. DOI: 10.1177/09732586231199549.

Muller, A. 2023. Cultural Entanglement, Displacement and Contemporary Durban in Imraan Coovadia’s High Low In-between. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 35(1):21–32. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2023.2167402.

Muller, A. 2022. Futures Forestalled … for Now: South African Science Fiction and Futurism. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 34(1):75–87. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2022.2035076.

Moreillon, O., Muller, A. & Stiebel, L. (Eds.), 2017. Cities in Flux: Metropolitan Spaces in South African Literary and Visual Texts. Münster: LIT Verlag.

Muller, A., 2017. “A Handful of Spaghetti”: South/South Migration and the City in Imraan Coovadia’s The Wedding, in: Cities in Flux: Metropolitan Spaces in South African Literary and Visual Texts. pp. 171–192.

Moreillon, O. & Muller, A. 2016. Half ’n Half: Mytho-Historical and Spatial Entanglements in Charlie Human’s Apocalypse Now Now and Kill Baxter. Journal of Literary Studies. 32(3):77–97. DOI: 10.1080/02564718.2016.1235383.

Muller, A. 2016. Cosmopolitan Criminality: Cultural Entanglements and Globalised Crime in Imraan Coovadia’s Green-Eyed Thieves. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 28(1):50–61. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2016.1170504.

Demir, D., Moreillon, O. & Muller, A. 2015. In Search of a ‘Rock Star’: Commemorating Kabelo Sello Duiker’s Life and Work Ten Years on. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 27(1):26–37. DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2015.1045206.

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About

Alan Muller is a lecturer of Academic Literacies at the University of Pretoria. His research interests encompass South African Literatures in English, Postcolonial Literatures, Diasporic Literatures, Speculative Fiction, Horror Studies, Academic Literacies, Global Citizenship Education, and the role of Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities.

He has published on a range of topics, including South African Indian Fictions, South African Speculative Fictions, Afrofuturism, and Academic Literacies in peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he has co-edited two scholarly volumes: AI Approaches to Literacy in Higher Education and Cities in Flux: Metropolitan Spaces in South African Literary and Visual Texts.

Currently, he is working on a PhD project that focuses on horror texts in South Africa produced after 2010. He is also an active member of the Humanities Research Ethics Committee at the University of Pretoria. Furthermore, he has served as an external moderator for third-year modules in the Department of English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and at the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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