Dr Christopher Wayne Koekemoer

Overview

Christopher W. Koekemoer is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Childhood Education at the University of Johannesburg. He is qualified in education, language practice, English grammar, and literary studies. His research is focused on teacher education, academic literacies, alternative assessments, multiliteracies, multimodality, and literary studies. Awards and recognition Global Excellence Scholarship recipient (2015) Accredited publications Koekemoer, C.W. (2025). Learning about World War Two: Group work discussions and literary engagement using Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief . Yesterday & Today , 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2223-0386/2025/n33a4 Koekemoer, C.W., Carolin, A., McCarthy, K., & Van der Merwe, D. (2025). Using WhatsApp to Teach Close Reading: The Case of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief . Changing English , 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2025.2480160 Zeilinga, J., Robinson, D., & Koekemoer, C.W. (2025). Contemporary monster theory: How monsters promote kindness and allyship in picturebooks. Literator , 46(1). https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v46i1.2162 Khan, C., van der Merwe, D., & Koekemoer, C.W. (2025). Literacy support in practice: Grade 3 teachers’ experiences with government reading interventions. Reading & Writing , 16(1). https://doi.org/10.4102/rw.v16i1.534 Koekemoer, C.W. (2024). Queer African literary communities: The anthology as political genre. Literator-Journal of Literary Criticism, Comparative Linguistics and Literary Studies , 45(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.4102/lit.v45i1.2009 Koekemoer, C.W. (2023). Mapping Abjection: Dissecting Racial and Sexual Boundaries in Mark Gevisser’s Lost and Found in Johannesburg. Journal of Literary Studies , 39(1): 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/12804 Koekemoer, C.W. & Grogan, B. (2018). Abjection in Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger . Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde , 55(2), 104–119. https://doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i2.1884