As a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Fellow, Nurlaeli Hidayanti teaches Indonesian at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Nurlaeli has been teaching English at the Foreign Language Intensification Program of UIN Alauddin Makassar for nine years.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in English teaching from UIN Alauddin Makassar, and her master’s in English literature from Hasanuddin University.