https://www.smcm.edu/ilc/
Main Contact
Joanna Bartow
Professor of Spanish & Chair
jrbartow@smcm.edu
(240) 895-4421
Anne Arundel
Organization Description

In addition to elementary and intermediate language studies in Chinese, French, German, and Spanish, SMCM offers both a major and a minor in International Languages and Cultures.

Assistant Professor González Hurtado Published an Article on Cinematic Landscape in Recent Narrative Films from Argentina and Mexico
July 9, 2021
Assistant Professor González Hurtado
Assistant Professor of Spanish Argelia González Hurtado has recently published in Letras Hispanas: Revista de Literatura y Cultura an article titled  “Family Ties and Affective Landscapes in 21st Century Argentinean and Mexican Cinema: El premio (2012) and Mai morire (2013).” Letras Hispanas is a… Find Out More
Assistant Professor González Hurtado Published in Latin American Perspectives Journal
May 25, 2021
Assistant Professor of Spanish Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado
Assistant Professor of Spanish Argelia Gonzalez Hurtado recently published an article, “Resistance and Revival: Indigenous Women Media-Makers in Contemporary Mexico,” in Latin American Perspectives, a peer-reviewed academic journal.

The article is part of a special issue focused on gender,… Find Out More
Associate Professor of French George MacLeod Has Book Published
November 3, 2023
George MacLeod portrait
Associate Professor of French George MacLeod has recently published a book, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film and Testimony after the Cold War" (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2023). The book looks at how Francophone African authors and filmmakers portray iconic figures such… Find Out More
Jon Geyer '26 Awarded AAA's Mentorship Award
May 31, 2023
Jon Geyer portrait
Jon Geyer ’26, a double major in anthropology and Asian Studies with a minor in Chinese, has been awarded the American Anthropological Association’s Ina Rosenthal-Urey Mentorship Award. The award pairs undergraduate anthropology majors with mentors from both academia and practice, who support the… Find Out More
French Professor George MacLeod Quoted in Miami Herald Article
May 12, 2023
George MacLeod portrait
Associate Professor of French George MacLeod is quoted in Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Jacqueline Charles' recent article in the Miami Herald on difficulties facing Haitian migrants in Tijuana, Mexico. The article describes how, during a research trip to Tijuana in late April 2023, MacLeod,… Find Out More
Professor of Spanish José Ballesteros Publishes Several Poems
March 29, 2023
Ballesteros portrait
Professor of Spanish José R. Ballesteros had several of his poems published in the Summer/Fall 2022 edition of The Journal of the South Central MLA (John Hopkins University Press).

Each of Ballesteros' poems is published with a translated counterpart, one in Spanish and one in English.… Find Out More
Associate Professor George MacLeod Publishes Article
December 8, 2022
George MacLeod portrait
Associate Professor of French George MacLeod has recently published an article entitled, “Race and Terrorism in French Cinema: Discourses of Whiteness and ‘Brown Threat’ in Nicolas Boukhrief’s Made in France” in the United Kingdom-based, peer-reviewed Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies.… Find Out More
Assistant Professor Argelia González Hurtado Awarded 2021 SSHRC Insight Development Grant
August 16, 2021
Argelia González Hurtado pictured
Argelia González Hurtado, assistant professor of Spanish, has been awarded an Insight Development Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). González Hurtado received, along with María Soledad Paz­-Mackay from St. Francis Xavier University, the IDG grant in… Find Out More
Students Present Research During Annual St. Mary’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program
July 12, 2021
St. Mary’s College of Maryland students and faculty mentors pictured
On July 2, St. Mary’s College of Maryland held its annual St. Mary’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, which provides students opportunities to engage deeply in independent research, laboratory, and creative work across disciplines, under the guidance and with the expertise of… Find Out More
Associate Professor of Chemistry Kelly Neiles and Team Invited to Join Inclusive Excellence Learning Community
February 24, 2021
Kelly Neiles pictured
Chair and Associate Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry Kelly Neiles, along with colleagues at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, have accepted an invitation from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to participate in an Inclusive Excellence Learning Community. The award includes $30,000… Find Out More
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