Dr. Elisabeth Arevalo-Guerrero Ph.D.
Assistant Teaching Professor · Non-Tenure Track
Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Born in Andalusia in the South of Spain, Elisabeth arrived the US in 2001 as a Fulbright scholar to pursue a MA in Intercultural Communication, a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Instructional Systems Design and a PhD in Language, Literacy and Culture at UMBC. She is a Senior Lecturer in Spanish and Intercultural communication, McNair faculty mentor for First Gen students, Fulbright advisor, and Director of the Intercultural Living Exchange (ILE) program, a Living Learning Community hosted at Harbor Hall. She has taught in several educational institutions in Spain and the US and participated as professor and course designer of intercultural communication in the inaugural voyage of the Scholarship in 2007, an international higher education program aboard a vessel traveling around the world. projects. She enjoys the beach, traveling, the arts, cooking, and collecting cultural artifacts.
Research interests
Assessment and development of intercultural competence; foreign language; teacher training; intercultural communication; international education; living learning communities; academic advising and mentorship; collaborative online international learning and study abroad; intercultural training.
Teaching interests
English and Spanish as foreign languages; Spanish literature and history; Intercultural communication; language for the professional and specific purposes; language pedagogies
Education
- Other, Diversity Equity Inclusion — UMBC (2022)
- Other, Internationalization of curriculum — AMPEI – Asociación Mexicana para la Educación Internacional and US embassy in Mexico (2020)
- Other, Community interpreter — Equal Access Language Services Language as an Equalizer Community Interpreter Training, (2019)
- Other, Teaching Pedagogy — UMBC (2018)
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Ph D, Language, Literacy, and Culture
— UMBC (2009) Assessing the Development of Learner´s Intercultural Sensitivity and Intercultural Communicative Competence: The Intercultural Spanish Class
- Other, Instructional System Development — UMBC (2007)
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MA, Intercultural Communication
— UMBC (2003) The Foreign Student Adviser as Intercultural Communicator
- Other, Teaching Methodology — University of Malaga (1998)
- BA, English and Spanish — University of Malaga (1997)