After studying Germanic languages An Verhulst got a scholarship from the Flemish Research Fund and wrote a PhD at the department of English linguistics of the KU Leuven and the Université Charles de Gaulle (Lille 3). She has taught undergraduate and graduate students at the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel, Universiteit Antwerpen and UGent. At the moment An is working as an English tutor of undergraduate students at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Universiteit Antwerpen) and is making pupils in secondary school passionate about Dutch and English.