Gina Barreca

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Gina Barreca is an American academic and humorist. She is professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut.

She is currently a columnist for the online magazine, Education World, as well as thrice-weekly blogger for The Chronicle of Higher Education's "Brainstorm" section. She has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs including Oprah, 20/20, 48 Hours, and The Today Show.

Author of eight books and editor of fourteen others, Barreca has also published articles in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Chicago Tribune, The Harvard Business Review, The Hartford Courant, The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, The Orlando Sentinel, Ms. Magazine, The Common Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Cosmopolitan. Barreca's books have been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Russian.

A noted public-speaker, Barreca speaks nationally and internationally about topic such as humor, stress, and gender 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.

She cowrote a series of humor columns in The Washington Post with Gene Weingarten about gender differences. These became one of her two most recent books: I'm With Stupid: One Man, One Woman and 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up; Her latest book is Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.

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Babes In Boyland: A Personal History Of Co-education In The Ivy League (2005), ISBN 978-1584652991
I'm With Stupid (2004), ISBN 0-7432-4420-6, co-written with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gene Weingarten
An ABC of Vice: An Insatiable Woman's Guide (2003), ISBN 978-0939883110, illustrated by cartoonist Nicole Hollander
Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful (2000), ISBN 978-0939883066
Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even (1995), ISBN 978-0425157664
Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature (1994), ISBN 978-0814321362
Perfect Husbands (and Other Fairy Tales) (1993), ISBN 978-0385475389
They Used to Call Me Snow White... But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor (1991), ISBN 978-0140168358

She is also editor of the following volumes:

The Signet Book of American Humor (2004), ISBN 978-0451210586
Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing (2002), ISBN 978-0142002476
A Sit-down with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TVs Most Talked About Series (2002), ISBN 978-0312295288
The Erotics of Instruction (1997), ISBN 978-0874518061
The Penguin Book of Women's Humor (1996), ISBN 978-0140172942
Desire and Imagination: 20 Classic Essays in Sexuality (1995), ISBN 978-0452011502
Fay Weldon's Wicked Fictions (1994)
New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (1992), ISBN 978-2881245336
Sex and Death in Victorian Literature (1990), ISBN 978-0253310156
Last Laughs