sadia mir

Sadia Mir is an Associate Professor of English at VCUarts Qatar. She teaches undergraduate courses in composition and rhetoric, research methods, literature, and the occasional film studies course. Interdisciplinary in nature, her work often moves between written text and visual, including poetry, narrative nonfiction, film/video, and collage art, mostly under the umbrella of documentary. Earlier in her career, Sadia worked as a documentary film researcher and script editor, and she directed the short film i was here. More recently, her practice-based research has explored the use of storytelling as pedagogy, community-driven creative research, and multimodal documentary media practices; for example, she co-created a place-based project that geotags personal narratives of a community to their physical landscapes through immersive media. She served as Principal Investigator for the Multimodal Mathematics Research Lab: Storytelling, Interactivity and Cultural Relevance (2021–2024).

Sadia was a founder of the Young Writers Program, a community writing program that encouraged critical and creative writing for K–12 youth, and she served as editor for the Young Writers Journal, the annual print anthology of creative writing by its participating writers during the program’s five-year run from 2014–2019. She is co-author of Spring Bloom: A Math Adventure Story (HBKU Press, 2020), which received recognition (Purple Dragonfly Award 2020, International Book Award 2020, American BookFest Award, 2020). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in Documentary Media Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University.