Gina Barreca | |
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Born | Regina Barreca 1957 (age 66–67) |
Alma mater | Dartmouth College, New Hall, Cambridge, City University of New York |
Spouse | Michael Meyer |
Website | GinaBarreca.com |
Regina Barreca (born 1957) is an American academic and humorist. She is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut and winner of UConn's highest award for excellence in teaching. [1] [2] She is the author of ten books, including the best selling They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor (Viking/Humor) and editor of 13 others. [3] Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent of London, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cosmopolitan, and The Harvard Business Review; for 20 years she wrote columns for various Tribune newspapers as well as a series of cover stories for the Chicago Tribune. [4] She is a member of the New York Friar's Club and an honoree of the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. [4] [5]
Barreca grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York, and is of Italian descent. She was the first woman to be named Alumni Scholar at Dartmouth College, where she earned her 1979 bachelor's degree. [6] Her stories from this time can be found in her memoir, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League. [7]
She was a Reynolds Fellow and earned her 1981 M.A. at New Hall, Cambridge University, and earned her 1987 Ph.D. (English Literature) from the Graduate School, City University of New York, dissertation: "Hate and Humor in Women"s Literature: Twentieth-Century British Writers.". [6]
From 1981 to 1987, Barreca was a Graduate Assistant/Adjunct Lecturer at Queens College. In 1987 she became an assistant professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she became an associate professor of English in 1991. From 1997 on she has been Professor of English. [6] [8] She has also been a Reed Fellow for English Language and Literature at UConn since 2017. [6] As of 2018, she has received the American Association of University Professors Excellence in Research and Creativity: Career Award, and was named the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature. [1] [6]
She is currently a blogger for Psychology Today, where she has over 7.5 million views. [4]
Barreca has also published articles in The New York Times , [9] The Philadelphia Inquirer , [10] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution , the Chicago Tribune , [11] [12] The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, [13] [14] The Orlando Sentinel , [15] [16] Ms. magazine, [17] and The Chronicle of Higher Education. [18]
Barreca cowrote a series of humor columns in The Washington Post with Gene Weingarten about the differences between men and women. These became the basis of the book she wrote with Weingarten, I'm with Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up. [19] They worked for two years via email and on the phone without having met first. [20]
Barreca appeared in Milton Friedman's documentary Free to Choose - Episode 6, as a student for Dartmouth College. [21]
In 2011, Barreca published a memoir about being one of the first classes of women at Dartmouth College titled Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League. [7]
She has served as an advisor to the Library of Congress for work on humor and the American character, and was deemed a "feminist humor maven" by Ms. magazine. [22]
Barreca married her husband, Michael Meyer, in 1991. They live in Storrs, Connecticut. [23]
In 2000, she received an honorary degree from Shepard's College in West Virginia. [31] She received an honorary degree from Manchester Community College in 2014, and honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, Charter Oak State College, Connecticut in 2016. [6]
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