Sadia Mir

Sadia Mir is an Associate Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University's VCUarts Qatar School of the Arts. She specializes in creative writing, documentary media, and social justice education, with a focus on storytelling's role in education and identity formation. Her work bridges narrative nonfiction, film/video, and immersive media, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches.

Education includes an MFA in Creative Writing and Documentary Media from University of British Columbia and Toronto Metropolitan University, a BA in English from McGill University, and a CELTA certificate from Cambridge University.

Research focuses on culturally relevant storytelling in education, particularly mathematics and social justice. Notable achievements include co-authoring Spring Bloom: a math adventure story (2020), which won multiple international awards, and leading projects like the Young Writers Program fostering creative writing in Qatar.

Her funded research includes grants from VCUarts Qatar ($20K annually 2021-2022), the Presidential Research Quest Fund ($49,898 in 2019), and a Qatar National Research Fund project ($150K in 2014). She has presented at global forums including the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (Chile, 2021) and Mathematics Education for the Future Project (Ireland, 2019).