Gulfishaan Habeeb has a PhD in English from Osmania University, Hyderabad. She has twenty-four years of experience in teaching English in undergraduate, postgraduate and MPhil programmes and has prepared audio and video lessons and edited materials for distance-mode programmes. She has also been supervisor and examiner for MPhil and PhD theses at several universities. With areas of research interest that fall into the broad categories of English literature and ELT, the author has twenty publications to her credit.
Gulfishaan Habeeb headed the Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad, from its inception in 2004 until March 2007. She is presently Associate Professor of English at the Directorate of Distance Education, MANUU.