is Wonderful (2000), Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even (1995), Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature (1994), Perfect Husbands (and Other Fairy Tales) (1993), They Used to Call Me Snow White…But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor (1991), Books edited Fast Fierce Women (2022), Fast Funny Women (2021), Make Mine A Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (or Not) (2011), The Signet Book of American Humor (2004), Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing (2002), A Sit-down with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most Talked About Series (2002), The Erotics of Instruction (1997), The Penguin Book of Women's Humor (1996), Desire and Imagination: 20 Classic Essays in Sexuality (1995), Fay Weldon's Wicked Fictions (1994) New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (1992), Sex and Death in Victorian Literature (1990), Last Laughs (1988) Books introduced Dorothy Parker. Complete Stories Colleen Bresse (Editor), Regina Barreca (Introduction) Louisa May. Little Women Regina Barreca (Introduction), Susan Straight (Afterword) 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. She received an honorary degree from Manchester Community College in 2014, and honorary Doctorate of Human Letters, Charter Oak State College, Connecticut in 2016. References External links Gina Barreca at The University of Connecticut Living people Radical feminists University of Connecticut faculty American academics of English literature American humorists 1957 births People from Storrs, Connecticut American writers of Italian descent Writers from Brooklyn University of Cambridge in fiction Women humorists Penguin Books people American memoirists American women memoirists Comedians from New York (state) Hartford Courant people Gender studies academics Dartmouth College alumni Alumni of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge People from Long Island