She taught a class, What It Is: Manually Shifting the Image. She joined the faculty of University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2013 as an assistant professor in the art department and through the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. During September 24–28, 2012, Barry was the artist in residence at Capilano University in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Other associates As of 2013, singer and friend Kelly Hogan was working as an assistant for Barry, helping her arrange her teaching schedule. In one episode of Barry's Ernie Pook's Comeek, children are peering in a window of the Hideout nightclub in Chicago, listening to Hogan's band The Wooden Leg. Personal life For a time, Barry dated public-radio personality Ira Glass. She briefly joined him in Washington, D.C., but a few months later, in the summer of 1989, she moved to Chicago to be near fellow cartoonists. Glass followed her there. Reflecting on the relationship, she called it the "worst thing I ever did," and said he told her she "was boring and shallow, and...wasn't enough in the moment for him." She later drew a comic based on their relationship titled "Head Lice and My Worst Boyfriend", which was later included in her book One! Hundred! Demons!... Glass has not denied her assertions, and told the Chicago Reader, "I was an idiot. I was in the wrong...About so many things with her. Anything bad she says about me I can confirm." Barry is married to Kevin Kawula, a prairie restoration expert. They met while she was an artist in residence at the Ragdale Foundation and he was land manager of the Lake Forest Open Lands project in Lake Forest, Illinois. In 2002 they moved to a dairy farm near Footville, Wisconsin. Barry is an outspoken critic of wind turbines and has lobbied the Wisconsin government for clearer zoning regulations for turbines being built in residential areas. She has also spoken out about wind power's problems with noise pollution, human health, and efficiency as related to variability. In 1994, Barry suffered a near-fatal case of dengue fever. Awards Eisner Award Best Reality Based Work Winner: What It Is, Eisner Awards 2009 Inkpot Award (1988) MacArthur Fellow, 2019 class Published works Girls and Boys (Real Comet Press 1981) Big Ideas (Real Comet Press 1983) Naked Ladies, Naked Ladies, Naked Ladies: Coloring Book (Real Comet Press 1984) Everything in the World (HarperCollins 1986) Down the Street (HarperCollins 1988) The