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 InclusionUMBC (2022)
  • Other, Internationalization of curriculumAMPEI – Asociación Mexicana para la Educación Internacional and US embassy in Mexico (2020)
  • Other, Community interpreterEqual Access Language Services Language as an Equalizer Community Interpreter Training, (2019)
  • Other, Teaching PedagogyUMBC (2018)
  • Ph D, Language, Literacy, and CultureUMBC (2009)
    Assessing the Development of Learner´s Intercultural Sensitivity and Intercultural Communicative Competence: The Intercultural Spanish Class
  • Other, Instructional System DevelopmentUMBC (2007)
  • MA, Intercultural CommunicationUMBC (2003)
    The Foreign Student Adviser as Intercultural Communicator
  • Other, Teaching MethodologyUniversity of Malaga (1998)
  • BA, English and SpanishUniversity of Malaga (1997)