Juliana M. Pistorius is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Research Fellow at University College London, and Account Manager for Excellent Research at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research engages with questions of race, coloniality, and political resistance in Western art music, with a special focus on opera in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa. Her work appears in Cultural Politics, Cambridge Opera Journal, Music & Letters, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Social Dynamics, Twentieth-Century Music, SAMUS: South African Music Studies, and several edited collections. She is the author of Postcolonial Opera: William Kentridge and the Unbounded Work of Art (Oxford University Press, 2025).