Nasreen Abbas

Nasreen Abbas got an MA in TESOL (2008) and an MA in Literature (2011) from American University, Washington, DC. She also has an MA in English Literature from Karachi University, Pakistan (1973). She has been with The George Washington University since 2012 and taught international graduate students in the English for Academic Purposes program before moving to the University Writing Program in Fall 2021.  She has also taught a course in Writing in the Disciplines at The George Washington University, For a number of years, she was also an adjunct with MEI at the University of Maryland, and a visiting professor at the National Defense University where she taught English for Academic Purposes to international graduate students.  In addition, she has taught Rhetoric and Introduction to Literature at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and a General Education: Foundation Writing in the Arts and Humanities at The University of the District of Columbia in Washington, DC. She has also taught international students at Georgetown University and at The University of Pennsylvania. In addition, she has a number of years teaching freshman comp, and reading and writing in the credit ESL program at the Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, Virginia, and at Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland.

Nasreen Abbas began teaching in1976. She taught first grade for a number of years before moving on to high school and eventually, college.