Roberta Seelinger Trites Author & Editor

Roberta Seelinger Trites is a professor of English at Illinois State University. The author of Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature (IOWA 2000), which won the 2002 Children's Literature Association Book Award, and Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels (IOWA 1997), which won an American Library Association Choice Award in 1997, she is currently president of the Children's Literature Association.