Myfany Turpin

Myfany Turpin is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney. She has been working on Australian Aboriginal songs and languages since 1996. Her research interests include the relationship between language and music, especially of lesser-known cultures; and identifying ways to support the continuation of endangered languages and performance arts. Her work examines Aboriginal song-poetry and its relationship to spoken languages and the documentation of Kaytetye language and encyclopaedic knowledge, an Arandic language of Central Australia.