Gina Barreca to Give Reading at Westminster School Dec. 7

Memoirist and humorist Gina Barreca will give a reading at Westminster School Dec. 7 as part of the school’s Friday Nights at Westminster series of readings and concerts held during the academic year. Other readers will include English teacher and poet Terence McCaffrey and junior Abby Davis.

Barreca has appeared on “20/20,” “The Today Show,” CNN, the BBC, “Dr. Phil,” NPR and “Oprah” to discuss gender, power, politics and humor. She is the author of “If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?” “It’s Not That I’m Bitter, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World,” the bestselling “They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted: Women’s Strategic Use of Humor” and “Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League.”

Her weekly columns from the Hartford Courant are distributed internationally, and she has written for most major publications including The New York Times, Independent, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Cosmopolitan and Harvard Business Review. Barreca is a professor of English at the University of Connecticut and winner of the university’s highest award for excellence in teaching.

Barreca’s reading at Westminster School is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of the school’s Armour Academic Center. The school is located at 995 Hopmeadow St. in Simsbury. Ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour Academic Center.

The event is made possible by generous grants from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund and the Marina Rust Connor Fund.