Spouse(s) Michael Meyer Role Academic | Name Gina Barreca Website www.ginabarreca.com | |
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Books It's Not That I'm Bitter, They Used to Call Me Snow Wh, Babes in Boyland: A Personal, A Sitdown With the Sopranos, An ABC of Vice |
Gina barreca not that i m bitter
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.
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- Gina barreca not that i m bitter
- Women in comedy regina barreca at tedxuconn 2013
- Career
- Personal
- Works and publications
- References

Women in comedy regina barreca at tedxuconn 2013
Career

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. They worked for two years via email and on the phone without having met first.
In 2011, Barreca published a memoir called Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.
Personal
Barreca married her husband, Michael Meyer, in 1991. They live in Storrs, Connecticut.
Works and publications
She is also editor of the following volumes: