Gina Barreca
Barreca working from home during the pandemic
Born	Regina Barreca 1957 (age 67–68)
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 andhumorist. She is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor ofEnglish literature andfeminist theory at theUniversity 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 sellingThey 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 inThe New York Times,The Independent of London,The Chronicle of Higher Education,Cosmopolitan, andThe Harvard Business Review; for 20 years she wrote columns for variousTribune newspapers as well as a series of cover stories for theChicago Tribune.^[4] She is a member of the New York Friar's Club and an honoree of theConnecticut Women's Hall of Fame.^[4][5]

Barreca grew up inBrooklyn andLong Island,New York, and is of Italian descent. She was the first woman to be named Alumni Scholar atDartmouth 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. atNew 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 atQueens College. In 1987 she became an assistant professor of English at theUniversity 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 forPsychology Today, where she has over 7.5 million views.^[4]

Barreca has also published articles inThe New York Times,^[9]The Philadelphia Inquirer,^[10]The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, theChicago Tribune,^[11][12]TheDartmouth Alumni Magazine,^[13][14]The Orlando Sentinel,^[15][16]Ms. magazine,^[17] andThe Chronicle of Higher Education.^[18]

Barreca cowrote a series of humor columns inThe Washington Post withGene 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 documentaryFree to Choose - Episode 6, as a student forDartmouth College.^[21]

In 2011, Barreca published a memoir about being one of the first classes of women at Dartmouth College titledBabes 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" byMs. magazine.^[22]

Barreca married her husband, Michael Meyer, in 1991. They live inStorrs,Connecticut.^[23]

• "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?" (2016),ISBN 978-1-250-06074-7
• It's Not That I'm Bitter, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World (2009),ISBN 978-0-312-54726-4^[24]
• Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League (2005),ISBN 978-1-58465-299-1^[25]
• I'm with Stupid (2004),ISBN 978-0-7432-4420-6, co-written withGene Weingarten^[26]
• An ABC of Vice: An Insatiable Woman's Guide (2003),ISBN 978-0-939883-11-0, illustrated byNicole Hollander
• Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful (2000),ISBN 978-0-939883-06-6
• Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even (1995),ISBN 978-0-425-15766-4^[27]
• Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature (1994),ISBN 978-0-8143-2136-2
• Perfect Husbands (and Other Fairy Tales) (1993),ISBN 978-0-385-47538-9^[28]
• They Used to Call Me Snow White...But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor (1991),ISBN 978-0-14-016835-8^[29]

• Fast Fallen Women (2023),ISBN 978-1-954-907-78-2
• Fast Fierce Women (2022),ISBN 978-1-954-907-00-3
• Fast Funny Women (2021),ISBN 978-1-949-116-20-5
• Make Mine A Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (or Not) (2011),ISBN 978-1-58465-759-0
• TheSignet Book of American Humor (2004),ISBN 978-0-451-21058-6
• Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing (2002),ISBN 978-0-14-200247-6
• A Sit-down withthe Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most Talked About Series (2002),ISBN 978-0-312-29528-8
• The Erotics of Instruction (1997),ISBN 978-0-87451-806-1^[30]
• ThePenguin Book of Women's Humor (1996),ISBN 978-0-14-017294-2
• Desire and Imagination: 20 Classic Essays in Sexuality (1995),ISBN 978-0-452-01150-2
• Fay Weldon's Wicked Fictions (1994)
• New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (1992),ISBN 978-2-88124-533-6
• Sex and Death inVictorian Literature (1990),ISBN 978-0-253-31015-6
• Last Laughs (1988)ISBN 978-0677220208

• Dorothy Parker.Complete Stories Colleen Bresse (Editor), Regina Barreca (Introduction)ISBN 978-0142437216
• Louisa May.Little Women Regina Barreca (Introduction), Susan Straight (Afterword)ISBN 978-0593198025

In 2000, she received an honorary degree from Shepard's College in West Virginia.^[31] She received an honorary degree fromManchester Community College in 2014, and honorary Doctorate of Human Letters,Charter Oak State College, Connecticut in 2016.^[6]

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• Official website
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• Psychology Today articles

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• Penguin Books people
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• Comedians from Brooklyn
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