Регина Баррека: Американдық ғалым және юморист

American academic and humorist

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, including the best selling They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor (Viking/Humor) and editor of 13 others. Her 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.

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. 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.". She has also been a Reed Fellow for English Language and Literature at UConn since 2017. Barreca has also 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. magazine, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. 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. Barreca appeared in Milton Friedman's documentary Free to Choose Episode 6, as a student for Dartmouth College.

Barreca married her husband, Michael Meyer, in 1991. They live in Storrs, Connecticut.

Dorothy Parker. Complete Stories Colleen Bresse (Editor), Regina Barreca (Introduction)
Louisa May. Little Women Regina Barreca (Introduction), Susan Straight (Afterword)

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.