Sadia Quraeshi Shepard
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Assistant Professor, Global South Asian Studies
BA Wesleyan UniversityMA Stanford University
MFA Hunter College
Sadia Quraeshi Shepard
Sadia Quraeshi Shepard is a writer, documentary filmmaker and videoessayist. Her research and teaching is primarily concerned with observational documentary filmmaking, the craft of literature to film adaptations, autobiographical storytelling and videographic criticism.
The author of The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir (The Penguin Press), Shepard’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Story Magazine, The New York Times, Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia and others. Her credits as a documentary film producer include The September Issue (A&E Films) and The Education of Mohammad Hussein (HBO). Her films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival, LA Independent Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival (Opening Night Selection) and others.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Tuesday 3-5PM and other times by appointment. To make an appointment, please go to my Calendly: https://calendly.com/sqshepard/studenthours
Courses
Fall 2023
FILM 104 - 01
Collaborative Documentary Film
FILM 312 - 01
The Short Film
Spring 2024
FILM 105 - 01
Writing the Moving Image
FILM 453 - 01
Film Adaptation