Professor of English Literature and feminist theory at the University of
Connecticut, Regina Barreca grew up in Brooklyn and Long Island, received a
B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.A. from Cambridge University (where she
was a Reynolds' Fellow), and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York.
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. With
Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post, she wrote I'm With Stupid: One Man,
One Woman, and 10,000 Years of Misunderstandings Between The Sexes Cleared
Right Up, published in 2004. Barreca has appeared on scores of radio and
television programs, including 20/20, 48 Hours, The Today Show, and Oprah.
Barreca's works, which have been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish,
Italian, Japanese and Czech, include the best-selling They Used to Call Me
Snow White, But I Drifted , Perfect Husbands (and Other Fairy Tales), Sweet
Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even, Untamed and Unabashed: Essays
on Women and Humor in British Literature, Too Much of a Good Thing is
Wonderful and (as editor) The Penguin Book of Women's Humor, The Signet Book
of American Humor, The Erotics of Instruction, and A Sit-Down With the
Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on T.V.'s Most Talked-About
Series (2002). With cartoonist Nicole Hollander, she wrote An ABC of Vice:
An Insatiable Woman's Guide, published in 2003. Her most recent book is Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in The Ivy League, published by the University Press of New England.
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