Gina Barreca

Gina Barreca
Born 1957
Spouse(s) Michael Meyer
Website www.ginabarreca.com

Regina "Gina" Barreca (born 1957) is an American academic and humorist. She is professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?" Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times, was published by St. Martin's Press in the spring of 2016.

She is currently a columnist for the Hartford Courant, as well as a blogger for Psychology Today. She has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, 48 Hours, The Joy Behar Show, Dr. Phil, and The Today Show.

An author and an editor, Barreca has also published articles in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, Harvard Business Review, The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, Ms. magazine, The Common Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Cosmopolitan and elsewhere. Barreca's books have been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

A noted public speaker, Barreca lectures nationally and internationally about a variety of topics including humor, women's comedy, women's lives, everybody's stress, and gender issues in the workplace. 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. Dave Barry declared that "Gina Barreca is very, very funny. For a woman."

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. Her memoir is titled Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League."

Personal

She and her husband, Michael Meyer, live in Storrs, Connecticut.[1]

Bibliography

She is also editor of the following volumes:

References

External links

1. Barreca's Homepage 2. Brainstorm at The Chronicle of Higher Education 3. Education World Archive 4. Faculty page at The University of Connecticut

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