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: Postcolonialism | Sport studies | Sport and literature | Sport and culture | Sport history

Dr T. R. Griffin is a sport studies scholar who has taught postcolonial literature in Qatar University since 2015. He uses postcolonial theory and similar critical frameworks to analyse the relationship between sport, geopolitics, and culture in the Gulf.

Dr Griffin has published extensively on this topic over the past decade. He has also spoken to a variety of international news media, including Al Jazeera, CNN, and the Financial Times, during this period about sport in the Gulf.

In addition, Dr Griffin serves as Middle East editor for The International Journal of the History of Sport, a position he has held since 2021.