Mahreen Salman is a lecturer in English at GIFT University, Gujranwala. Mahreen specializes in teaching English literature with particular focus on global anglophone fiction and European drama. Mahreen’s pedagogy is informed by a keen awareness of the fraught relationship that Pakistani students have with English language and literary tradition. Her teaching practices are aimed at foregrounding the tensions that underlie the emerging liberatory politics of global anglophone literature. In addition to literary studies, Mahreen has routinely taught English language courses to law and business studies students. 

Mahreen was among the pioneer batch of M. Phil graduates from the GIFT University. Her dissertation focused on the women’s poetry from the 1960’s to argue that there was a strong similarity of thematic concerns among women poets of the decade. Mahreen’s research work offered original insights into the writings of Sylvia Plath, Forugh Farrokhzad, and Kamala Das to propose that the global feminist movement coalesced around a shared dissatisfaction with patriarchy. 

Mahreen has vast teaching experience spanning over a decade. She has taught undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of the Punjab and Sargodha University sub-campus in Gujranwala.