Neelam Hanif has a Master’s in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University and a BA (Hons) in English Literature from Hunter College, City University of New York. She taught ESL in the United States for several years and was an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Developmental Skills at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, USA. Her most recent assignment was at Forman Christian College (a chartered university) in Lahore, Pakistan where she established a writing center at the institution and was a faculty member in the Department of English. Her areas of interest include: L2 Reading and Writing, the relationship of language, ethnicity, and identity, sociolinguistics including varieties of English: Pakistani English, Teaching English as a Second Language, and Language Education and Policy.