Barbara (Basia) Krupa-Ryan

Education

M.A., Linguistics with a TESOL concentration, Northeastern Illinois University

M.A., Education and Culture, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

Research Interests

Dance Studies, Street Dance, Hip-Hop Culture, Hip-Hop Dance – Breaking

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Illinois Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages-Bilingual Education (ITBE)

EnglishUSA

Publications

Krupa-Ryan, B. (2024, November 9). We Were There: The Lasting Cultural Impact of Breaking in the Olympics, Paris 2024, Audiences’ Perspective. Medium https://medium.com/@basiakrupa/we-were-there-the-lasting-cultural-impact-of-breaking-in-the-olympics-1730b04b9e46

Krupa-Ryan, B. (2022, June 14). Investigating for Truth: Judging Breaking Ain’t Easy. American Dancer Magazine https://americandancer.org/investigating-for-truth/

Krupa-Ryan, B. (2021, August 4). Challenges of the Pandemic. Back to Breaking Live. American Dancer Magazine https://3q21.americandancer.org/breaking_report/

Krupa-Ryan, B. (2012). B-boy Worldview, Underlying Values through the Keywords of American and South Korean Dancers.  Annual International Conference on Literature, Language and Linguistics (L3 2012,) 1st Annual International Conference Proceedings, 183-188. doi: 10.5176/2251-3566_L31284, Singapore

Professional Activities

• Multimedia Presentation in collaboration with the Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum’s Darell ”Artistic” Roberts, Global Conference on Hip Hop Education, Long Beach, California: “Soul Train’s Chicago Roots and the Show’s Impact on the Proliferation of Hip Hop during the Golden Era”, November, 2023
• TESOL 2021 Virtual Presentation: Teaching Combined Levels – in Search of a Perfect Compromise
• Invited Guest Speaker:TESOL Italy Val D’Adige in collaboration with Free University of Bolzano Language Center, Italy: Teaching Mixed Levels Online and Offline, September 2020
• HyFlex Course Training, July 2020
• TESOL 2020 Denver: accepted presentation/conference canceled: Teaching Combined Levels – in Search of a Perfect Compromise
• ITBE 2020 Presentation: Teaching Combined Levels in an IEP program