Anne Murphy

Anne Murphy (Ph.D. Columbia) is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, with interests in language and literary cultures, the history of the Punjabi language in South Asia and beyond, religious community formations in the early modern and modern periods, oral history, commemoration, historiography, and material culture studies. Current research concerns modern Punjabi cultural production in the Indian and Pakistani Punjabs and in the Diaspora, and the early modern history of Punjabi's emergence as a literary language. She has published one monograph, edited or co-edited three volumes and three special journal issues, one book-length translation, and articles in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, History and Theory, Studies in Canadian Literature, South Asian History and Culture, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and other journals.