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词条 Gina Barreca
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

      Professor    Author    Articles and other publications    Books    Speaker  

  3. Personal

  4. Works and publications

      Books written    Books edited    Books introduced    Honorary degrees and awards  

  5. References

  6. External links

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}}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.[1][1] She is the author of ten books and editor of 11 others.[2] 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.[4] She is a member of the New York Friar's Club and an honoree of the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.[4][3] 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.[1][4]

Early life and education

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.[5] Her stories from this time can be found in her memoir, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.[6]

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.”.[5]

Career

Professor

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.[5][7] She has also been a Reed Fellow for English Language and Literature at UConn since 2017.[5] 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.[8][5]

Author

Articles and other publications

She is currently a columnist for the Hartford Courant,[9] as well as a blogger for Psychology Today, where she has over 6 million views.[10]

Barreca has also published articles in The New York Times,[11] The Philadelphia Inquirer,[12] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune,[13][14] Harvard Business Review, The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine,[15][16] The Orlando Sentinel,[17][18] Ms. magazine,[19] The Common Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education,[20] and Cosmopolitan and elsewhere. Barreca's books have been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

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.[21] They worked for two years via email and on the phone without having met first.[22]

Barreca appeared in Milton Friedman's documentary Free to Choose - Episode 6, as a student for the Darthmouth College[23]

Books

In 2011, Barreca published a memoir called Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.[6]

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.[24][4]

Speaker

A noted public speaker, Barreca lectures nationally and internationally about a variety of topics including humor, women's comedy, women's lives, everybody's stress, and gender issues 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.[25]

She has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, 48 Hours, The Joy Behar Show, Dr. Phil, and The Today Show.

Recently, Barreca joined the Mark Twain House and Museum Board of Trustees.[24]

Personal

Barreca married her husband, Michael Meyer, in 1991. They live in Storrs, Connecticut.[26]

Works and publications

Books written

  • "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?" (2016), {{ISBN|978-1-250-06074-7}}
  • It's Not That I'm Bitter, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World (2009), {{ISBN|978-0-312-54726-4}}[27]
  • Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League (2005), {{ISBN|978-1-58465-299-1}}[28]
  • I'm with Stupid (2004), {{ISBN|978-0-7432-4420-6}}, co-written with Gene Weingarten[29]
  • An ABC of Vice: An Insatiable Woman's Guide (2003), {{ISBN|978-0-939883-11-0}}, illustrated by Nicole Hollander
  • Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful (2000), {{ISBN|978-0-939883-06-6}}
  • Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even (1995), {{ISBN|978-0-425-15766-4}}[30]
  • Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature (1994), {{ISBN|978-0-8143-2136-2}}
  • Perfect Husbands (and Other Fairy Tales) (1993), {{ISBN|978-0-385-47538-9}}[31]
  • They Used to Call Me Snow White…But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor (1991), {{ISBN|978-0-14-016835-8}}[32]

Books edited

  • Make Mine A Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (or Not) (2011), {{ISBN|978-1-58465-759-0}}
  • The Signet Book of American Humor (2004), {{ISBN|978-0-451-21058-6}}
  • Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing (2002), {{ISBN|978-0-14-200247-6}}
  • A Sit-down with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most Talked About Series (2002), {{ISBN|978-0-312-29528-8}}
  • The Erotics of Instruction (1997), {{ISBN|978-0-87451-806-1}}[33]
  • The Penguin Book of Women's Humor (1996), {{ISBN|978-0-14-017294-2}}
  • Desire and Imagination: 20 Classic Essays in Sexuality (1995), {{ISBN|978-0-452-01150-2}}
  • Fay Weldon's Wicked Fictions (1994)
  • New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (1992), {{ISBN|978-2-88124-533-6}}
  • Sex and Death in Victorian Literature (1990), {{ISBN|978-0-253-31015-6}}
  • Last Laughs (1988) {{ISBN|978-0677220208}}

Books introduced

  • Dorothy Parker. Complete Stories Colleen Bresse (Editor), Regina Barreca (Introduction) {{ISBN|0142437212}} {{ISBN|978-0142437216}}

Honorary degrees and awards

She has received a number of honorary degrees. In 2000, she received an honorary degree from Shepard's College in West Virginia.[34] She received an honorary degree from Manchester Community College in 2014, and honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, Charter Oak State College, Connecticut in 2016.[5]

References

1. ^1 {{cite web|title=Regina Barreca|url=http://english.uconn.edu/regina-barreca/|website=University of Connecticut Department of English|publisher=University of Connecticut|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=https://genoleads.uconn.edu/person/gina-barreca/|title=Gina Barreca|work=Geno Auriemma UConn Leadership Conference|access-date=2018-05-02|language=en-US}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://cwhf.org/induction-ceremony/2012#.WzKMzlMvyT8|title=Induction Ceremony 2012 {{!}} Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame|website=cwhf.org|language=en|access-date=2018-06-26}}
4. ^1 {{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?|url=http://us.macmillan.com/ifyouleaninwillmenjustlookdownyourblouse/ginabarreca|website=Macmillan Publishers|publisher=St. Martin's Press|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
5. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|url=https://english.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/451/2014/04/barreca-cv.pdf|title=curriculum vitae|author=Regina Barreca|date=|website=uconn.edu|accessdate=19 November 2018}}
6. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.upne.com/1584652993.html|title=Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|website=University Press of New England|publisher=University Press of New England|accessdate=31 August 2016}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://english.uconn.edu/regina-barreca/|title=Regina Barreca - Department of English|author=|date=|website=english.uconn.edu|accessdate=19 November 2018}}
8. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://clas.uconn.edu/2018/03/22/six-clas-professors-receive-aaup-excellence-awards/|title=Six CLAS Professors Receive AAUP Excellence Awards {{!}} College of Liberal Arts and Sciences|website=clas.uconn.edu|access-date=2018-03-27}}
9. ^{{cite web|title=Gina Barreca|url=http://www.courant.com/hartnews-gina-barreca-20130507-staff.html|website=Hartford Courant|publisher=The Tribune|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
10. ^1 2 {{cite web|title=Gina Barreca Ph.D|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/gina-barreca-phd|website=Psychology Today|publisher=Sussex Publishers|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
11. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=HEPBURN MEMO; All Girl, but Never a Girly-Girl|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/nyregion/hepburn-memo-all-girl-but-never-a-girly-girl.html|website=The New York Times|publisher=The New York Times Company|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
12. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Regina|title=A dying father, impatient to the end|url=http://articles.philly.com/2006-10-08/news/25417686_1_patience-minimum-wage-combat-missions|website=The Philadelphia Inquirer|publisher=H.F. Gerry Lenfest|accessdate=31 August 2016}}
13. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=Patty Duke and the good girl/bad girl syndrome|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-patty-duke-good-girl-bad-girl-20160330-story.html|website=Chicago Tribune|publisher=The Tribune|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
14. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=The $150,000 purse and other 'wife bonuses'|url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-primates-of-park-avenue-wife-bonus-20150529-story.html|website=Chicago Tribune|publisher=The Tribune|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
15. ^{{cite web|title=Keynote Speakers|url=http://dartmouth.org/greenways/presenters.html|website=Greenways Coming Home|publisher=Dartmouth College|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
16. ^{{cite web|last1=Sundberg Seaman|first1=Kelly|title=Talking With: Gina Barreca '79|url=https://news.dartmouth.edu/news/2011/02/talking-gina-barreca-79|website=Dartmouth News|publisher=Dartmouth|accessdate=30 August 2016}}
17. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=Hillary Clinton is a woman who doesn't know her place|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/fl-gbcol-oped0222-20160219-story.html|website=Orlando Sentinel|publisher=The Tribune|accessdate=31 August 2016}}
18. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=Here are 10 things you must stop doing immediately|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/fl-gbcol-oped0321-20160318-story.html|website=Orlando Sentinel|publisher=The Tribune|accessdate=31 August 2016}}
19. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=Real stories, real laughter, real women|url=http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2004/whatsfunny.asp|website=Ms. Magazine|publisher=Liberty Media for Women, LLC|accessdate=31 August 2016}}
20. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=Why I Love Fay Weldon|url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-I-Love-Fay-Weldon/140161|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education|publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc.|accessdate=31 August 2016}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Im-with-Stupid/Gene-Weingarten/9780743278881|title=I'm with Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|last2=Weingarten|first2=Gene|website=Simon & Schuster|publisher=Simon & Schuster|accessdate=31 August 2016}}
22. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/im-with-stupid/|title='I'm With Stupid'|last1=Morales|first1=Tatiana|date=9 February 2004|work=CBS News}}
23. ^{{Citation|last=Common Sense Capitalism|title=Free to Choose Part 6: What's Wrong With Our Schools Featuring Milton Friedman|date=2010-12-23|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx6-PHKzHvM&feature=youtu.be|access-date=2019-03-16}}
24. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://english.uconn.edu/regina-barreca/|title=Regina Barreca {{!}} Department of English|website=english.uconn.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-27}}
25. ^{{cite web|last1=Barreca|first1=Gina|title=It's Not That I'm Bitter…|url=http://us.macmillan.com/itsnotthatimbitter/ginabarreca|website=Macmillan Publishers|publisher=St. Martin's Press|accessdate=31 August 2016}}
26. ^{{cite web|title=Regina Barreca – Connecticut Marriage Index|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VWTL-1YV|website=FamilySearch|date=12 October 1991}}
27. ^Review of It's Not That I'm Bitter: [https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-54726-4 Publishers Weekly]
28. ^Reviews of Babes in Boyland: [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gina-barreca/babes-in-boyland/ Kirkus], [https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.2006.00279.x Journal of American Culture], [https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-58465-299-1 Publishers Weekly]
29. ^Review of I'm with Stupid: [https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7432-4420-6 Publishers Weekly]
30. ^Review of Sweet Revenge: Los Angeles Times
31. ^Review of Perfect Husbands: [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/regina-barreca/perfect-husbands-and-other-fairy-tales/ Kirkus]
32. ^Reviews of They Used to Call Me Snow White: [https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-670-83801-1 Publishers Weekly], [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/regina-barreca-2/they-used-to-call-me-snow-white-womens-strategi/ Kirkus]
33. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.upne.com/9644614.html|title=The Erotics of Instruction|author=Regina Barreca|date=|website=upne.com|accessdate=19 November 2018}}
34. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/wheres-your-diploma/43488|title=Where's Your Diploma? – Brainstorm – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education|website=www.chronicle.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-08}}

External links

  • {{official website|ginabarreca.com}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110720073739/http://english.uconn.edu/directory/faculty.php?id=6%2F Gina Barreca] at The University of Connecticut
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