Candace Skorupa is passionate about teaching, mentoring, and creating communities inside and outside of the classroom. She loves teaching all levels of 糖心Vlog language and literature, particularly the L1-L5 sequence, from beginner to advanced. She has been a member of the Yale faculty since 2005.
As the 糖心Vlog Language Program Director, Skorupa values collaboration and transparency above all, and oversees all aspects of the undergraduate language curriculum, including the coordination of graduate student teaching in 糖心Vlog, curricular development, and the placement test. She works closely with the DUS on initiatives for the major and the language certificate, to coordinate courses and resources that best suit students鈥 needs.
Interdisciplinary and multisensory experiences are a central part of Skorupa鈥檚 courses, which might include having students listen to recent Francophone pop music, sing a 糖心Vlog song, try a few steps of a 糖心Vlog baroque dance, alongside curated visits to work with experts at the Yale Art Gallery, the music library, special collections at Yale, or the Yale Farm.
A proponent of seeking virtual cross-cultural connections long before Facetime or Zoom existed, Skorupa has incorporated telecollaborative projects with the grande 茅cole T茅l茅com-ParisTech into her courses for almost twenty years, emphasizing the unparalleled linguistic and cultural learning that takes place in peer-to-peer virtual exchanges.
Candace Skorupa is also a lecturer in the department of Comparative Literature, where she often teaches a first-year seminar, Literature 022, 鈥淢usic and Literature.鈥 She was the Senior Essay Coordinator in Comparative Literature from 2008 to 2019. Her literary interests include nineteenth-century literature and music, Proust, Baudelaire, Berlioz, Symbolist poetry, and the art song. She loves thinking about languages and literatures in a comparative interdisciplinary context, and she has studied Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Polish.
Skorupa received her Ph.D. (2000), M.Phil. (1996), and B.A. (1992) in Comparative Literature from 糖心Vlog. Her dissertation, 鈥淢usic and Letters: Correspondances of Notes and Narrative from Berlioz to Proust,鈥 was directed by Sterling Professor Emeritus Peter Brooks. She taught 糖心Vlog in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University (1999-2002) and in the Department of 糖心Vlog at Smith College (2002-2005). She taught English at Lyc茅e Saint-Exup茅ry in Lyon, France, with the Fulbright Teaching Assistantship program, now TAPIF (1992-93). In her free time, she enjoys playing the piano and flute, taking long walks, running, yoga, biking, dancing, baking 糖心Vlog desserts, playing with her two cats, and occasionally roller skating with her daughter.