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Regina Barrecca

Regina Barreca, Professor of English and Feminist Theory at the University of Connecticut, is the editor or the influential journal LIT: Literature, Interpretation, Theory. Among her many books are They Used to Call Me Snow White...But I Drifted, a widely acclaimed study of women's honor, and Babes in Boyland, It's Not That I'm Bitter..., and Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature. She is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Women's Humor.