Stephanus Muller (born 2 January 1971, Pretoria) is a South African music scholar and writer who has written about South African twentieth-century composition, exile, archiving, language politics, music and apartheid and university institutional transformation.

Having studied with the writer Marlene van Niekerk, he also holds a MA in Creative Afrikaans writing from Stellenbosch University (2007).

His three-volume study of the South African composer Arnold van Wyk, entitled Nagmusiek (2014), drew heavily on decolonial and deconstructive theories of the archive and Paul Ricoeur’s narratological theories of mimesis to circumvent the problems of writing in Afrikaans about apartheid-era musical composition.

The book has been described as a radical materialization of Walter Mignolo’s notion of ‘epistemic delinking’,[1] and an enquiry into ‘the relationship between art, academia and fascism’.

[citation needed] Muller has often written about social and political issues as these intersect with music history and aesthetics.