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Gina Barreca is an American author, humorist, and feminist scholar. She is a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of nine books, including the best-selling They Used to Call Me Snow White…But I Drifted: Women’s Strategic Use of Humor, and the editor of the anthology It’s a Funny Thing, Humor.
Gina Barreca has an estimated net worth of $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her successful career as an author, humorist, and feminist scholar. She has written nine books and edited an anthology. She has also appeared on television and radio shows, and has been a guest lecturer at universities around the world.
Gina Barreca is 63 years old. She is a Capricorn and was born in the Year of the Rooster. Her birth flower is Carnation and birthstone is Garnet.
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Regina Barreca |
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67 years old |
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Capricorn |
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14 January 1957 |
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14 January |
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Brooklyn, New York, United States |
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United States |
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Who Is Gina Barreca's Husband?
Her husband is Michael Meyer
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Gina Barreca Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Currently she is working on a book about loneliness that will be released in 2020.
Her most recent 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.
In 2011, Barreca published a memoir called Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.
She has received a number of honorary degrees. In 2000, she received an honorary degree from Shepard's College in West Virginia. She received an honorary degree from Manchester Community College in 2014, and honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, Charter Oak State College, Connecticut in 2016.
Barreca married her husband, Michael Meyer, in 1991. They live in Storrs, Connecticut.
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.”.
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. 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.
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. Her stories from this time can be found in her memoir, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.
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. She is the author of ten books and editor of 11 others. Her weekly articles from The Hartford Courant are syndicated internationally by the Tribune Co. and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Independent of London, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cosmopolitan, and The Harvard Business Review. She is a member of the New York Friar's Club and an honoree of the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. 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 and was an ELLE Reader's Prize selection that June. Currently, she is working on a book about loneliness.
