Regina Barreca was born on 1957 and is an American academic and humorist.
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Gina Barreca 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.
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Gina Barreca 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 and editor of 13 others.
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Gina Barreca's 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.
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Gina Barreca is a member of the New York Friar's Club and an honoree of the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
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Gina Barreca was the first woman to be named Alumni Scholar at Dartmouth College, where she earned her 1979 bachelor's degree.
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Gina Barreca has been a Reed Fellow for English Language and Literature at UConn since 2017.
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Gina Barreca is currently a blogger for Psychology Today, where she has over 7.5 million views.
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Gina Barreca has published articles in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, Ms.
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Gina Barreca cowrote a series of humor columns in The Washington Post with Gene Weingarten about the differences between men and women.
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Gina Barreca appeared in Milton Friedman's documentary Free to Choose - Episode 6, as a student for Dartmouth College.
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In 2011, Gina 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.
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Gina Barreca 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.
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Gina Barreca received an honorary degree from Manchester Community College in 2014, and honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, Charter Oak State College, Connecticut in 2016.