She is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut and winner of UConn's highest award for excellence in teaching.

[1][2] She is the author of ten books, including the best selling They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor (Viking/Humor) and editor of 13 others.

[6] Her stories from this time can be found in her memoir, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.

[18] Barreca cowrote a series of humor columns in The Washington Post with Gene Weingarten about the differences between men and women.

[20] Barreca appeared in Milton Friedman's documentary Free to Choose - Episode 6, as a student for Dartmouth College.

[21] In 2011, Barreca published a memoir about being one of the first classes of women at Dartmouth College titled Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.