sadia mir
Principal Investigator, LIT/ART LAB
Associate Professor of English, VCUarts Qatar
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 immersive media. Earlier in her career, Sadia worked as a documentary film researcher and script editor, and directed her first short documentary film, i was here. More recently, her practice-based research explores the use of storytelling as pedagogy, community writing 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.
As a founder of the Young Writers Program, she encouraged critical and creative writing for youth in K-12. She also 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 has 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.