Juliana M. Pistorius is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Research Fellow at University College London and the University of the Witwatersrand. 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. After graduating with a DPhil from the University of Oxford she was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellowship at the University of Huddersfield. She is a founding member of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN) and reviews editor for Cambridge Opera Journal. Her monograph, Postcolonial Opera: William Kentridge and the Unbounded Work of Art is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. At present, she is developing a monograph project titled Beyond Boycott: Musical Internationalism and the Making of Race in Apartheid South Africa.