Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature, Department of English Literature & Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences, Qatar University.

Academic Editor (Middle East), The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Research Interests: Sport and culture / Sport and literature / Sport and national identity

Dr T. R. Griffin is a sport studies scholar who has taught postcolonial literature in Qatar University since 2015. He has published extensively on the relationship between sport, geopolitics, and culture in the Gulf over the past decade and has spoken at length to international news media such as Al Jazeera, CNN, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and RAI1 on the subject.

Dr Griffin has also served as Middle East editor for The International Journal of the History of Sport since 2021.