Anna’s research considers the multisensory experience of painting within sacred and ritual spaces in South Asia, notions of physical and sacred landscape, pilgrimage, and performance. Her book manuscript, Muralspace: Painting in the South Indian Temple, uses visual and inscriptional evidence from murals as a novel source of historical documentation for patterns of patronage, monastic organization and activities, and relationships between visual, oral, and written texts. She is a co-organizer of an ongoing international collaborative project that seeks to digitize and preserve South Asian visual and audio archives in order to make them widely and freely available.