Dr. Irina Valentyinovna Golubeva
Professor · Tenured
Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health Language, Literacy and Culture
College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
She/Her/Hers/Herself
About
Dr. Irina Golubeva is a Professor of Intercultural Communication and Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA). Her main research interests include the internationalization of higher education and the development of multilingual awareness, empathy, and intercultural citizenship. She is co-editor of From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship and Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond: Evolving Concepts, Perspectives and Practices, and co-author of Intercultural Competence for College and University Students: A Global Guide for Employability and Social Change. She also co-hosts the webinar series, Decentering Intercultural Research and Practice, which brings together international scholars and practitioners to critically reimagine the field. She is deeply committed to non-profit work and served for seven years as Vice-President of the European Association of Teachers. In 2020, she received the title of “UMBC Innovation Fellow” for her contribution to fostering intercultural dialogue on campus and enhancing students’ engagement in Internationalization at Home. Most recently, she was elected a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research.
Research interests
Development of Multilingual Awareness and Intercultural Competence
Internationalization of Higher Education
Intercultural Training and Coaching
Intercultural Citizenship Education
Teaching interests
Intercultural and Cross-Cultural Communication
Advanced Methods in Intercultural Training
The Field of Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Pragmatics
World Language Communities
Education
- MA, E-government manager — University of Pannonia (2010)
- Graduate Certificate, Executive Program at Kennedy School of Government — Harvard University (2010)
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Ph D, Language Studies
— University of Pecs (2009) The potential of FL coursebooks for promoting the acquisition of intercultural communicative competence at the beginner to elementary levels (Based on the analysis of English, Russian and Spanish language coursebooks currently in use by adult language learners in Hungary)
- MA, Teaching Spanish and English Language and Literature — Herzen State Pedagogical University of St. Petersburg (1992)
Publications
- InterEqual 2024
- InterEqual 2023
- From intercultural communicative competence to intercultural citizenship: Preparing Young People for Citizenship in a Culturally Diverse Democratic World 2022
- Intercultural learning in language education and beyond: Evolving concepts, perspectives, and practices 2022
- Internationalism, Democracy, Political Education - an Agenda for Foreign Language Education 2022
- Exploring Hungarian broader public perceptions of and interactions with Chinese 2021
- A Portfolio of Competences for Democratic Culture. Standard Version. 2021
- A Portfolio of Competences for Democratic Culture. Young Learners Version. 2021
- Intercultural Competence for College and University Students A Global Guide for Employability and Social Change 2020
- Translanguaging Practices in Early Childhood Classrooms from an Intercultural Perspective 2020
- Enhancing faculty and staff engagement in internationalisation: A Hungarian example of training through intercultural dialogue 2020
- Játék a szavakkal: Transzlingvális gyakorlatok a new york-i angol-magyar kétnyelvű óvodáskorú kisgyerekek csoportjában 2019
- El ruso en Lintuania: ¿lingua franca de comunicación intercultural o ideoma de ideología soviética? 2018
- Emotional Intelligence and Intercultural Competence: Theoretical Questions and Pedagogical Possibilities 2018
- Intercultural preparation for future mobile students: a pedagogical experience. 2018
- Translanguaging Practices in a Hungarian-English Early Childhood Classroom 2018
- Exploring Students’ Perceptions of the Campus Climate and Intergroup Relations: Insights from a Campus-Wide Survey at a Minority-Serving University
- Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship
Presentations
- Defining Culture: Insights from Student Perspectives 2025
- Opening Keynote 2025
- What Is Culture, Really? - A Study of Students' Perspectives 2025
- Towards new model of intercultural empathy 2025
- Art as a Catalyst for Campus Inclusivity: Fostering Belonging and Empathy through Community-Engaged Project 2025
- Defining culture through ‘language’ and ‘food’: a study of undergraduate students’ conceptualizations of the cultural concept 2025
- What promise does VR technology hold for intercultural learning? 2024
- Enhancing Students’ Self-Awareness of Their Conflict Styles through Virtual Collaboration 2023
- Advancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice through Internationalization-at-Home 2023
- The Power of Intercultural Learning 2023
- Enhancing internationalization at home through a more inclusive approach to global learning 2023
- What is VR Good for in Intercultural Learning? 2023
- Exploring the intercultural climate of a minority-serving university: What does really matter? 2023
- Internationalization at Home: Why Campus Climate Matters 2023
- . “Az egyetemi hallgatók empátia és interkulturális kompetencia fejlesztése” [The Development of empathy and intercultural competence in university students] 2023
- InterEqual 2023
- What is intercultural competence and why do we need it? 2023
- Pressing issues of intercultural citizenship education 2023
- Exploring students’ perceptions of the campus climate and intergroup relations, and creating a more equitable university 2023
- Exploring the diversity of embodied practices of social protests: insights from an intercultural virtual exchange 2022
- Understanding university students’ motivation to study intercultural communication 2022
- Development of intercultural competence through the study of embodied social activities: a practical pedagogical approach 2022
- Embodied practices, empathy and social activism in virtual exchange 2022
- The potential of pedagogies of discomfort in intercultural virtual exchange 2022
- Intercultural learning in language education and beyond: Evolving concepts, perspectives, and practices 2022
- Channelling discomfort through the arts: an intercultural project on Covid-19 2021
- Civic education through intercultural telecollaboration: studying embodied practices of social activism 2021
- Exploring students’ perceptions about embodied practices of social protests: Results of an intercultural virtual exchange 2021
- Pedagogies of discomfort in intercultural citizenship education 2021
- Interrogating linguistic inequality and disrupting linguistic hierarchies through translanguaging in multilingual university classroom 2020
- Micro-talk: Intercultural competence for social change 2020
- Translanguaging practices as a means of ensuring an inclusive environment in multilingual 2020
- International Educators Becoming Intercultural Leaders: Accessing our Full Intelligence 2020
- Translanguaging as a tool for supporting multilingual identities and creating a “safe” space (Roundtable) 2020
- Developing Empathy in Intercultural Communication Students through Virtual Exchange? 2020
- Playing with Words: Translanguaging Practices of Emergent Hungarian-English Bilinguals in New York 2018
- Towards a global guide for students’ intercultural competence? 2018
- The development of intercultural citizenship and criticality in world languages teaching: An Online Collaboration 2018
Grants and Contracts
- CAHSS Student Research Assistance for Faculty Research and Creative Achievement 2024
- C3S Summer Faculty Research Fellowship 2024
- CAHSS Student Research Assistance for Faculty Research and Creative Achievement (SRA) 2024
- CAHSS Student Research Assistance for Faculty Research and Creative Achievement (SRA) 2023
- Scholarly Completion Fund 2022
- Strategic Awards for Research Transitions 2021
- Hrabowski Innovation Fund Fellowship 2020
- CAHSS Pedagogy and Teaching (PAT) 2020
- C3S Summer Faculty Research Fellowship 2020
- Provost’s Research Stipend 2020
Research in Progress
- CULTNET Values Subgroup 2023
- Glocademia in Practice IG 2023
- Digital Humanities Pedagogy in Action: Insights from a telecollaboration exploring inclusiveness of university campuses through art 2023
- Culturally Competent Research Practices 2021
- The InterEqual modules 2021
- The role of Virtual reality experience in developing perspective taking 2021
- "Teacher, Culture, Pluri" 2019
- Building Empathy in Intercultural Communication classroom 2018
Courses Taught
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Adv Methods Intercult Trng
- Doctoral Diss Research
- Pragmatics
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Doctoral Diss Research
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Doctoral Diss Research
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- World Lang Communities
- Doctoral Diss Research
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Adv Methods Intercult Trng
- Intercultural Pragmatics
- Special Projects In Incc
- Doctoral Diss Research
- Pragmatics
- Pragmatics
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- World Lang Communities
- Doctoral Diss Research
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Adv Methods Intercult Trng
- Doctoral Diss Research
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- Pre Candidacy Doc Rsch
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Adv Methods Intercult Trng
- Intercultural Pragmatics
- Pre Candidacy Doc Rsch
- Pragmatics
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- Field Of Intercult Comm
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Special Proj:Russ Lang
- Adv Methods Intercult Trng
- Intercultural Impact Institute
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- Inter/Cross-Cult Commun
- World Lang Communities
- Intro Intercultural Comm
- Adv Methods Intercult Trng
- Intercultural Pragmatics
- Intro Intercultural Comm