2/25 'Why Am I Like This?' at Age 25: Regina Barreca (Writer, Professor)

Doctor Gina Barreca has been teaching at the University of Connecticut for over 25 years. When she was 25, she was just beginning her career studying women’s humor in literature.

Since then she’s written over fifteen books, has a weekly column in the Hartford Courant, has been on Oprah, Dr. Phill, the Today Show, and was in the first class to include women at Dartmouth College. Currently she’s writing a book about loneliness and humor.

Gina and I met in her office, filled with books and posters and trinkets, including a Barbie doll dressed as Tippi Hedren in The Birds.

In our interview we discussed anxiety and ambition. She says that If you’re ambitious, you never get to relax. On the one hand that drive never goes away, but on the other hand the insecurity does.

Here’s Gina Barreca on 25.

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