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'''Roberta Seelinger Trites''' (born 1962)<ref name=lci>[http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n97005372 Trites, Roberta Seelinger 1962-], [[WorldCat]], retrieved 2017-09-05</ref> is a [[Distinguished Professor]] of English Literature at [[Illinois State University]],<ref name=distinguished>{{citation|url=http://www.videtteonline.com/news/campus/english-professor-promoted-to-distinguished-professor-of/article_5627e34a-8683-5d2e-8964-76109dd4dd65.html|title=English professor promoted to Distinguished Professor of 2013|date=January 21, 2013|newspaper=Vidette Online|first= Jennifer|last=Novoseletsky}}</ref> 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,<ref name=cv>[http://english.illinoisstate.edu/seeling/VITA_files/Tritesvita2006.pdf Curriculum vitae], 2006, accessed 2017-09-05</ref>
and became Distinguished Professor in 2013.<ref name=distinguished/>

She has written the following books:
* ''Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels'' (University of Iowa Press, 1997).<ref>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}}</ref>
* ''Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature'' (University of Iowa Press, 1998).<ref>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}}</ref> This book was awarded the Children's Literature Association book award in 2002.<ref>[http://www.childlitassn.org/book-award Book award], Children's Literature Association, retrieved 2017-09-05</ref>
* ''Twain, Alcott and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel'' (University of Iowa Press, 2007).<ref>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}}</ref><ref>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}}</ref>
* ''A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives'' (edited with Betsy Hearne, University of Iowa Press, 2009).<ref>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}}</ref><ref>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}}</ref>
* ''Literary Conceptualizations of Growth: Metaphors and Cognition in Adolescent Literature'' (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 2014).<ref>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}}</ref><ref>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}}</ref><ref>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}}</ref><ref>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}}</ref>

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.<ref>[https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2017/05/trites-named-winner-international-brothers-grimm-award/ Trites named winner of the International Brothers Grimm Award]; [https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2017/07/prestigious-international-award-highlights-importance-professors-research/ Prestigious international award highlights the importance of professor’s research]. Illinois State University News, 2017, accessed 2017-09-05</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://english.illinoisstate.edu/seeling/ Home page]

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