Roberta Seelinger Trites (born 1962)[1] is a Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Illinois State University,[2] specializing in children's literature.

Trites graduated from Texas A&M University in 1983, and earned a master's degree from the University of Texas at Dallas in 1985. She received her Ph.D. in 1991 from Baylor University with a dissertation entitled Twain's innocence, Clemens' experience : narrative inconsistencies in The Innocents Abroad under the direction of James R. LeMaster. She joined the Illinois State faculty as an assistant professor in 1991,[3] and became Distinguished Professor in 2013.[2]

She has written the following books:

  • Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels (University of Iowa Press, 1997).[4]
  • Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature (University of Iowa Press, 1998).[5] This book was awarded the Children's Literature Association book award in 2002.[6]
  • Twain, Alcott and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel (University of Iowa Press, 2007).[7][8]
  • A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives (edited with Betsy Hearne, University of Iowa Press, 2009).[9][10]
  • Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2014).[11][12][13][14]

Trites is the winner of the 16th International Brothers Grimm Award of the International Institute for Children's Literature in Osaka, Japan, becoming the third American and the first American woman to win the award.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Trites, Roberta Seelinger 1962-, WorldCat, retrieved 2017-09-05
  2. 1 2 Novoseletsky, Jennifer (January 21, 2013), "English professor promoted to Distinguished Professor of 2013", Vidette Online
  3. ↑ Curriculum vitae, 2006, accessed 2017-09-05
  4. ↑ Review of Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels by Kimberley Reynolds (1998), Women's Studies International Forum 21 (3): 322–323, doi:10.1016/S0277-5395(98)00028-4
  5. ↑ Review of Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature by Stephen Thomson (2004), Yearbook of English Studies 34: 275–277. doi:10.2307/3509517
  6. ↑ Book award, Children's Literature Association, retrieved 2017-09-05
  7. ↑ Review of Twain, Alcott and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel by Andrew Klekner Kantar (2008), The Lion and the Unicorn 32 (1): 119–124, doi:10.1353/uni.2008.0010
  8. ↑ Review of Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel by Katherine Adams (2008), Children's Literature Association Quarterly 33 (4): 454–457, doi:10.1353/chq.0.1883
  9. ↑ Review of A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives by Karen J. Mowrer (2010), Women's Studies 39(2): 158–161, doi:10.1080/00497870903459465
  10. ↑ Review of A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives by Nancy Kang (2015), Callaloo 38 (5): 1177–1180, doi:10.1353/cal.2015.0145
  11. ↑ Review of Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature by Eyal Segal (2016), Poetics Today 37 (1): 225–227, doi:10.1215/03335372-3453018
  12. ↑ Review of “Unsuitable” Books: Young Adult Fiction and Censorship by Caren J. Town, and: Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature by Roberta Seelinger Trites, by Amanda M. Greenwell (2015), Children's Literature 43: 317–324, doi:10.1353/chl.2015.0001
  13. ↑ Review of Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature by John Stephens (2015), Cognitive Semiotics 8 (1): 87–91, doi:10.1515/cogsem-2015-0004
  14. ↑ Review of Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature by Kent Baxter (2016), The Lion and the Unicorn 40 (3): 350–353, doi:10.1353/uni.2016.0029
  15. ↑ Trites named winner of the International Brothers Grimm Award; Prestigious international award highlights the importance of professor’s research. Illinois State University News, 2017, accessed 2017-09-05


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