Gina Barreca

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gina Barreca
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Jan 14, 1957(1957-01-14)
Age	67
Birthplace	Brooklyn
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Capricorn

Gina Barreca Biography

Gina Barreca is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on January 14, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Regina Barreca (born 1957) is an American comedian and academic. She is an Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut and winner of the University’s top distinction for excellence in teaching. The author is of 10 books and the editor of 11 other publications. Her weekly pieces from The Hartford Courant are syndicated internationally by the Tribune Co. and her work has been featured on The New York Times, The Independent of London, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cosmopolitan, and The Harvard Business Review. She is an active member of the New York Friar’s Club and an honored member of the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame. Her most recent work, “If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?” Questions and thoughts for Loud and Smart Women in Tough Times It was published through St. Martin’s Press in the spring of 2016 and was also an ELLE Reader’s Prize choice in was awarded in June. Presently, she’s working on a novel about loneliness.

Barreca got married to her husband Michael Meyer, in 1991. They reside within Storrs, Connecticut.

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

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.

She was an Reynolds Fellow and earned her 1981 M.A. in English Literature at New Hall, Cambridge University and the Ph.D. (English Literature) from the Graduate School, City University of New York and her thesis “Hate and Humor in Women’s Literature: Twentieth-Century British Writers.”.

Gina Barreca Net Worth

Gina Barreca is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gina Barreca 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Barreca was born living in Brooklyn as well as Long Island, New York she is Italian descent. She was the first woman to be named an Alumni Scholar at Dartmouth College in the year she earned her bachelor’s degree in 1979. The stories she shared during this period can be read in her memoir Babes in Boyland: A Personal Story of Co-education in the Ivy League.

From 1981 to 1987, Barreca was a Graduate Assistant/Adjunct Lecturer at Queens College. In 1987, she was appointed the Assistant Professor in English of the University of Connecticut, where she was promoted to Associate Professor in English in the year 1991. Since 1997, she was an Associate Professor in English. She is also an Reed Fellow for English Language and Literature at UConn since the year 2017. In 2018, she has been awarded an award from the American Association of University Professors Excellence in Research and Creativity Career Award as well as being awarded by the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature.

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.

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