Dr. Anne Murphy

Forschungsinteresse Dr. Anne Murphy (PDF, EN)

• Grieving for Pigeons: Twelve Stories of Lahore by Zubair Ahmed, translated by Anne Murphy. Athabasca University Press (2022, open access).
• “Modern Punjabi literature and the Spectre of Sectarian Histories” for special issue of the Cracow Indological Studies journal, vol. 23: History and Other Engagements with the Past in Modern South Asian Writing/s, co-edited by Piotr Borek and Monika Browarczyk. Vol. XXIII, 2 (2021): 91–118. https://doi.org/ 10.12797/CIS.23.2021.02.04
• “Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: Individualization in early modern Punjab through Waris Shah's Hīr.” In Religious Individualisations: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, editors Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Parson and Jörg Rüpke, 289-314. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. Open Access. https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/498381?rskey=qmtzPy&result=1 (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110580853).
• Co-editor, with Dr. Anshu Malhotra (University of California, Santa Barbara) of a special issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 16: 1-2 (2020), Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1674513.
• “Punjabi in the (late) Vernacular Millennium.” In Early Modern India: literature and images, texts and languages, edited by Maya Burger & Nadia Cattoni, 305-328. Heidelberg, Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks, 2019. Open Access. https://crossasia-books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/xasia/reader/download/387/387-43-84778-1-10-20190502.pdf
• “Configuring community in colonial and pre-colonial imaginaries: Insights from the Khalsa Darbar records.” In Religious Interactions in Modern India, Martin Fuchs and Vasudha Dalmia, eds, 165-187. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• “At a Sufi-Bhakti Crossroads: Gender and the politics of satire in early modern Punjabi Sufi literature,” Archiv orientální (Journal of African and Asian Studies) 86 (2018): 243-268. Open Access. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/74587
• “Thinking beyond Aurangzeb and the Mughal State in a late 18th century Punjabi Braj source,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 28, 3 (2018): 537-554.
• “Writing Punjabi Across Borders,” South Asian History and Culture 9, 1 (2018): 68-91.
• Partition and the Practice of Memory. Edited with Churnjeet Mahn (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland). London: Palgrave UK, 2018.
• Co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 28, 3 (2018) with Heidi Pauwels (University of Washington) entitled "From Outside the Persianate Center: Vernacular Views on Ālamgīr."
• “Placing Max Arthur Macauliffe in context(s): Sikh historiographical traditions and colonial forms of knowledge,” Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 4 (2017): 58-73. https://jisasr.org/current-issue-volume-4-2017/
• “Dissent and Diversity in South Asia Religions.” In The Management of Intramural Dissent on Core Beliefs (Cambridge Univ. Press), edited by Simone Chambers & Peter Nosco, 158-185. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
• The Materiality of the Past: History and Representation in Sikh Tradition New York: Oxford University Press, 2012; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Time, History, and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia. London: Routledge, 2011.
• “The Guru’s Weapons,” The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 77, 2 (June 2009): 1-30.
• “History in the Sikh Past,” History and Theory 46, 2 (October 2007): 345-365.

In Print (2020-2022):

• Grieving for Pigeons: Twelve Stories of Lahore by Zubair Ahmed, translated by Anne Murphy. Athabasca University Press (open access), 2022. Book-length translation of the Punjabi language short stories of Lahore-based author Zubair Ahmed. Athabasca University Press (open access).
• “Modern Punjabi literature and the Spectre of Sectarian Histories” for special issue of the Cracow Indological Studies journal, vol. 23: History and Other Engagements with the Past in Modern South Asian Writing/s, co-edited by Piotr Borek and Monika Browarczyk. Vol. XXIII, 2 (2021): 91–118. https://doi.org/ 10.12797/CIS.23.2021.02.04
• “Sikhism.” In The Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion (eds C. Taliaferro and S. Goetz). Wiley, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119009924.eopr0367
• “The Territorialization of Sikh Pasts.” In Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions, edited by Knut Jacobsen, 205-221. Routledge, 2021.
• “Ghair-Puṅjābaṇ” (“Non-Punjabi”), Bārāṅ Māṅ, Literary journal published in Lahore, Pakistan (Vol 2, 2020): 163-171. In Punjabi.
• Introduction, with Anshu Malhotra, to co-edited special journal issue of Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory entitled Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab, , 16: 1-2 (2020), 1-13 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2019.1674513).
• “Relics in the Sikh Tradition.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Material Religion, Vasudha Narayanan, ed., 356-371. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2020.
• “Encountering Difference and Identity in South Asian Religions.” In Encountering the Other, edited by Laura Duhan Kaplan and Harry Maier, 39-48. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2020.
• (Co-author) “Re-Curating a Literary Utopia: Creative Resistance in Preet Nagar,” Co-authored essay on the "Creative Interruptions" project (see below, under "Exhibitions/Performances/Creative Work"), co-authored with Churnjeet Mahn, Raghavendra Rao, Samia Singh, Ratika Singh, and Poonam Singh, in Creativity and Resistance in a Hostile World, Sarita Malik, Churnjeet Mahn, Michael Pierse, and Ben Rogaly, eds, 181-210. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020.
• “Sufis, Jogis, and the question of religious difference: Individualization in early modern Punjab through Waris Shah's Hīr.” In Religious Individualisations: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, editors Martin Fuchs, Antje Linkenbach, Martin Mulsow, Bernd-Christian Otto, Rahul Parson and Jörg Rüpke, 289-314. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2020. Open Access. https://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/498381?rskey=qmtzPy&result=1 (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110580853).
• “A Diasporic Temporality: New narrative writing from Punjabi-Canada.” Originally published in Towards a Diasporic Imagination of the Present: An eternal sense of homelessness, edited by Tapati Bharadwaja, 9-30. Bangalore: Lies and Big Feet Press, 2015 (see below), reprinted in Abhinandan Granth, by Jarnail Singh Sekha (Chetna Prakashan, 2020).

Accepted and Forthcoming

• “Beyond the Past: Poetry as a Notation of the Present” for edited volume on Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957), building on the 2020 special issue of Sikh Formations, co-edited by myself and Anshu Malhotra (University of California, Santa Barbara). Under contract with Routledge, Critical Sikh Studies Series. Accepted, awaiting proofs.
• “Locating a Punjabi classic: Regional and Linguistic Affinities in Waris Shāh's Hīr (18th c.),” accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Asian Ethnology, “Rethinking Regions: Locality and Circulation in South Asia,” co-edited by myself and Philipp Zehmisch (University of Heidelberg). Accepted, awaiting proofs. Planned publication in early 2024.
• “Remembering Against Nostalgia: Partition's Literary Shadows in the work of Najm Hosain Syed (b. 1936)” for special issue of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, edited by Kamran Asdar Ali (University of Texas, Austin Texas, USA), Om Dwivedi (Auro University in Surat, India) and Tabish Khair (Aarhus University, Denmark). Accepted, awaiting proofs.
• “The Reimagination of Religion: 1700-1860,” essay commissioned for the Cambridge History of the Modern Indian Subcontinent, edited by David Gilmartin, Prasannan Parthasarathi, Mrinalini Sinha. Submitted to editors 27 February 2021. Accepted, awaiting proofs.
• “The Possibility of the Secular: Sikh Engagements with Modern Punjabi Literature” for forthcoming volume on Global Sikh Studies, edited by Arvind Mandair and Pashaura Singh. Submitted to the editors in July 2019. Final version delivered November 2021. Accepted, awaiting proofs.
• “War Outside the State: Religious Communities, Martiality, and State Formation in Early Modern South Asia” for volume on Religion and War, edited by Margo Kitts (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press). Revised essay submitted 21 December 2021. Accepted, awaiting proofs.
• “Progressive politics, gender & the Punjabi literary through the work of Dalip Kaur Tiwana,” Essay commissioned for Punjabi Centuries, edited by Anshu Malhotra. Final revisions after editing submitted October 2020.  Accepted, awaiting proofs.
• “The emergence of the social in service of the Guru,” in Generating the Guru: Genealogies of Religious Authority in South Asia, edited by István Keul (University of Bergen) and Srilata Raman (Toronto). Originally submitted in 2016; final revisions after contract for volume in place, submitted November 2021. Routledge.
• “Sevā (service) and the Relationality of Self-Formation as Affective Transformation” in Bhakti and the Self, edited by Martin Fuchs.