Gina Barreca Explained

Gina Barreca
Birth Name:Regina Barreca
Alma Mater:Dartmouth College,
New Hall, Cambridge,
City University of New York
Spouse:Michael Meyer

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] 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.[2] 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. She is a member of the New York Friar's Club and an honoree of the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.[3]

Early life and education

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.[4] Her stories from this time can be found in her memoir, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.[5]

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.".[4]

Career

Professor

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.[4] [6] She has also been a Reed Fellow for English Language and Literature at UConn since 2017. 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.[7]

Author

Articles and other publications

She is currently a blogger for Psychology Today, where she has over 7.5 million views.[8]

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.

Books

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.

Speaker

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.[21]

Personal

Barreca married her husband, Michael Meyer, in 1991. They live in Storrs, Connecticut.[22]

Works and publications

Books written

Books edited

Books introduced

Honorary degrees and awards

In 2000, she received an honorary degree from Shepard's College in West Virginia.[30] She received an honorary degree from Manchester Community College in 2014, and honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, Charter Oak State College, Connecticut in 2016.[4]

References

[31] [32]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Regina Barreca. University of Connecticut Department of English. University of Connecticut. 30 August 2016.
  2. News: Gina Barreca. Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference. 2018-05-02. en-US.
  3. Web site: Induction Ceremony 2012 Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. cwhf.org. en. 2018-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20180627005205/http://cwhf.org/induction-ceremony/2012#.WzKMzlMvyT8. 2018-06-27. dead.
  4. Web site: curriculum vitae. Regina Barreca. uconn.edu. 19 November 2018.
  5. Web site: Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League. Barreca. Gina. University Press of New England. 31 August 2016.
  6. Web site: Regina Barreca - Department of English. english.uconn.edu. 19 November 2018.
  7. Web site: Six CLAS Professors Receive AAUP Excellence Awards College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. clas.uconn.edu. 2018-03-27.
  8. Web site: Gina Barreca Ph.D. Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers. 30 August 2016.
  9. News: Barreca. Gina. HEPBURN MEMO; All Girl, but Never a Girly-Girl. The New York Times . 6 July 2003 . 30 August 2016.
  10. Web site: Barreca. Regina. A dying father, impatient to the end. The Philadelphia Inquirer. H.F. Gerry Lenfest. 31 August 2016.
  11. Web site: Barreca. Gina. Patty Duke and the good girl/bad girl syndrome. Chicago Tribune. 30 March 2016 . The Tribune. 30 August 2016.
  12. Web site: Barreca. Gina. The $150,000 purse and other 'wife bonuses'. Chicago Tribune. 29 May 2015 . The Tribune. 30 August 2016.
  13. Web site: Keynote Speakers. Greenways Coming Home. Dartmouth College. 30 August 2016.
  14. Web site: Sundberg Seaman. Kelly. Talking With: Gina Barreca '79. Dartmouth News. 9 February 2011 . Dartmouth. 30 August 2016.
  15. Web site: Barreca. Gina. Hillary Clinton is a woman who doesn't know her place. Orlando Sentinel. 20 February 2016 . The Tribune. 31 August 2016.
  16. Web site: Barreca. Gina. Here are 10 things you must stop doing immediately. Orlando Sentinel. 19 March 2016 . The Tribune. 31 August 2016.
  17. Web site: Barreca. Gina. Real stories, real laughter, real women. Ms. Magazine. Liberty Media for Women, LLC. 31 August 2016.
  18. Web site: Barreca. Gina. Why I Love Fay Weldon. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 15 July 2013 . The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc.. 31 August 2016.
  19. Book: I'm with Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up. Barreca. Gina. Weingarten. Gene. 9 January 2006 . Simon & Schuster . 9780743278881 . 31 August 2016.
  20. News: 'I'm With Stupid'. Morales. Tatiana. 9 February 2004. CBS News.
  21. Web site: Barreca. Gina. It's Not That I'm Bitter.... Macmillan Publishers. St. Martin's Press. 31 August 2016.
  22. Web site: Regina Barreca – Connecticut Marriage Index. FamilySearch. 12 October 1991.
  23. Review of It's Not That I'm Bitter: Publishers Weekly
  24. Reviews of Babes in Boyland: Kirkus, Journal of American Culture, Publishers Weekly
  25. Review of I'm with Stupid: Publishers Weekly
  26. Review of Sweet Revenge: Los Angeles Times
  27. Review of Perfect Husbands: Kirkus
  28. Reviews of They Used to Call Me Snow White: Publishers Weekly, Kirkus
  29. Web site: The Erotics of Instruction. Regina Barreca. upne.com. 19 November 2018.
  30. Web site: Where's Your Diploma? – Brainstorm – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education. www.chronicle.com. 25 January 2012 . en-US. 2018-05-08.
  31. Web site: 50 Years of Ms. . 2023-09-18 . Ms. Magazine . 26 January 2023 . en-US.
  32. Web site: Barreca, Regina. "What's So Funny". Ms. Magazine. Knopf. 2023. Print. . 2023-09-18 . Ms. Magazine . 26 January 2023 . en-US.

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