Dr. Rubina Iqbal is a professor at Women's College in the department of English at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh where she has been teaching and doing research since 2001.She has experience of teaching at Imambara PG Degree College of DDU University,Gorakhpur and Shayamlal Degree College of Delhi University, Delhi before joining  Aligarh Muslim University.
She has done her graduation and post graduation from AMU, Aligarh in the first division. She has qualified NET.  Her areas of interest include Indian writing in English, Gender Studies, Subaltern Literature,  transgender writings, and literary theory.

She was awarded her Ph.D.  from the Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh on American fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her   topic was "A Reading of Select Novels and Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne from New Historicist Perspective”. She also published a book on Hawthorne. Her papers have been published in various national and international journals of repute.  She contributed many chapters in books published by national and international publishers like Viva, Routledge, and Kitaab publication Singapore.

At present, six research scholars are doing research under her supervision for their Ph.D degree. Her research interests lie in reading New Historicism, transgender writings and Dalit writings. Her passion for research led her to explore lives of tribal communities, immigrant writings and Arab writings. She has designed the syllabus of two post graduate courses Subaltern Studies and Gender Studies at the Department of English at Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and was course coordinator for the same. Rubina Iqbal was also part of the syllabus designing committee of her department in 2019 and developed the   syllabus for the paper World Literatures for the MA III semester students.