Anne Murphy is a scholar, cultural historian, and a translator working in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia where her work focuses on the Punjab region of India and Pakistan referencing 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. Her current research concerns modern Punjabi literature in the Indian and Pakistani Punjabs and in the broader Punjabi Diaspora, and the early modern history of Punjabi’s emergence as a literary language. Anne has published her studies extensively in journals and other publications. Her book-length translation of the short stories of Punjabi-language writer Zubair Ahmed, Grieving for Pigeons: Twelve Stories of Lahore was published by Athabasca University Press in 2022. In spring/summer 2023, Anne released the results of the ‘Punjabi in BC’ Oral History project completed with the research assistance of UBC undergraduates and recent graduates. She is co-primary investigator with Dr. Suraj Yengde (Oxford) of another oral history project, ‘Caste in Canada’, that will also be released in 2023.
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anne.murphy@ubc.ca
At the April 22, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Anne will be the Featured Author presenting her translated work of short fiction. More about the event is here: saturday-april-22
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