| Making the changes: Jazz in South African literature and reportage M Titlestad Brill, 2021 | 128 | 2021 |
| Writing the city after apartheid M Titlestad na, 2012 | 43 | 2012 |
| Turning to crime: Mike Nicol’s The ibis tapestry and Payback M Titlestad, A Polatinsky The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 45 (2), 259-273, 2010 | 32 | 2010 |
| Humility in a Godless World: Shame, Defiance and Dignity in Coetzee’s Disgrace M Kissack, M Titlestad The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 38 (3), 135-147, 2003 | 26 | 2003 |
| Future tense: The problem of South African apocalyptic fiction M Titlestad English Studies in Africa 58 (1), 30-41, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| Jazz discourse and black South African modernity, with special reference to “Matshikese” M Titlestad American ethnologist 32 (2), 210-221, 2005 | 22 | 2005 |
| “The foot does not sniff”: Imagining the post‐anti‐apartheid intellectual M Titlestad, M Kissack Journal of Literary Studies 19 (3-4), 255-270, 2003 | 20 | 2003 |
| Allegories of white masculinity in Damon Galgut’s The Good Doctor M Titlestad Social dynamics 35 (1), 111-122, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| Contesting maps: musical improvisation and narrative M Titlestad Pretexts: literary and cultural studies 10 (1), 21-36, 2001 | 18 | 2001 |
| Afterword: Observations on post-apartheid literature M Titlestad David Medalie. The Mistress’s Dog: Short Stories 2010, 181-91, 1996 | 17 | 1996 |
| The Secularization of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Mike Nicol's" The Ibis Tapestry" M Titlestad, M Kissack Research in African Literatures, 48-67, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| Olive Schreiner and the secularization of the moral imagination M Kissack, M Titlestad English in Africa 33 (1), 23-46, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| The Logic of the Apocalypse: A Clerical Rejoinder M Titlestad Safundi 14 (1), 93-110, 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
| The persistent castaway in South African writing M Titlestad, M Kissack Postcolonial Studies 10 (2), 191-218, 2007 | 15 | 2007 |
| The pitfalls of the literary debut M Titlestad Sunday times 25, 37, 2007 | 15 | 2007 |
| South African end times: Conceiving an apocalyptic imaginary M Titlestad Tydskrif vir letterkunde 51 (2), 52-70, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| TALES OF WHITE UNREST: DAVID MEDALIE'S THE MISTRESS'S DOG: SHORT STORIES 1996–2010 M Titlestad English Studies in Africa 53 (1), 118-121, 2010 | 13 | 2010 |
| Love, power and meaning M Holloway, DC Byrne, MF Titlestad Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 | 12 | 1999 |
| Introduction: controversial interpretations: Ivan Vladislavic G Gaylard, M Titlestad scrutiny2 11 (2), 5-10, 2006 | 11 | 2006 |
| “I have always known shipwreck”: Whiteness in Sheila Fugard’s The Castaways M Titlestad, M Kissack ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 36 (1-2), 2005 | 11 | 2005 |
