Gina Barreca

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Gina Barreca is a humorist and professor of literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. Author of five books and editor of fourteen others, Dr. 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. She cowrote a series of humor columns in The Washington Post with Gene Weingarten about gender differences that 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. She is currently a columnist for the online magazine, Education World. She has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs including Oprah, 20/20, 48 Hours, and The Today Show. She lectures world-wide on the subject of gender and humor.

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Babes In Boyland: A Personal History Of Co-education In The Ivy League (2005)
I'm With Stupid (2004), ISBN 0-7432-4420-6, co-written with Gene Weingarten
Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful (2000)
Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even (1995)
Perfect Husbands (and Other Fairy Tales) (1993)
They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted (1991)

She is also editor of the following volumes: Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing; The Penguin Book of Women's Humor; The Signet Book of American Humor; A Sit-down with the Sopranos; The Erotics of Instruction; Sex and Death in Victorian Literature; Last Laughs; New Perspectives on Women and Comedy; Desire and Imagination; and Fay Weldon's Wicked Fictions