Background
Roberta Seelinger Trites was born on July 28, 1962, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. She is a daughter Robert T. Trites, a petroleum chemist, and Kathryn Trites, a registered nurse.
College Station, Texas, United States
In 1983 Roberta Seelinger Trites received a Bachelor of Arts degree fromTexas A&M University.
Richardson, Texas, United States
In 1985 Roberta Seelinger Trites obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Waco, Texas, United States
In 1991 Roberta Seelinger Trites gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Baylor University.
(Waking Sleeping Beauty explores issues of voice in a wide...)
Waking Sleeping Beauty explores issues of voice in a wide range of children's novels, including books by Virginia Hamilton, Patricia MacLachlan, and Cynthia Voight as well as many multicultural and international books. Far from being a limiting genre that praises females at the expense of males, the feminist children's novel seeks to communicate an inclusive vision of politics, gender, age, race, and class. By revising former stereotypes of children's literature and replacing them with more complete images of females in children's books, Trites encourages those involved with children's literature - teachers, students, writers, publishers, critics, librarian, booksellers, and parents - to be aware of the myriad possibilities of feminist expression.
https://www.amazon.com/Waking-Sleeping-Beauty-Feminist-Childrens/dp/0877455910/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a co...)
The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social institutions within which they function, including family, church, government, and school. Trites argues that the development of the genre over the past thirty years is an outgrowth of postmodernism, since YA novels are, by definition, texts that interrogate the social construction of individuals. Drawing on such nineteenth-century precursors as Little Women and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Disturbing the Universe demonstrates how important it is to employ poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing adolescent literature, both in critical studies and in the classroom. Among the twentieth-century authors discussed are Blume, Hamilton, Hinton, Le Guin, L'Engle, and Zindel.
https://www.amazon.com/Disturbing-Universe-Repression-Adolescent-Literature/dp/087745857X/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topi...)
Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence in America, provoking a literary sentiment that continues to inform young adult literature. Both intuited that the transitory nature of adolescence makes it ripe for expression about human potential for change and reform.
https://www.amazon.com/Twain-Alcott-Birth-Adolescent-Reform-ebook/dp/B00CY7B97K/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guid...)
Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guided our lifework. In this extraordinary collection, women scholars from a variety of disciplines identify and examine the stories that have inspired them, haunted them, and shaped their research, from Little House on the Prairie to Little Women, from the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Nancy Drew, Mary Jane, and even the Chinese memoir Jottings from the Transcendant's Abode at Mt. Youtai. Telling the "story of her story" leads each of the essayists to insights about her own approach to studying narratives and to a deeper, often surprising, understanding of the power of imagination.
https://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Compass-Stories-Guide-Womens/dp/0252076117/?tag=2022091-20
2009
(Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those proc...)
Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those processes through which maturation is represented in adolescent literature by examining how concepts of growth manifest themselves in adolescent literature and by interrogating how the concept of growth structures scholars’ ability to think about adolescence. Cognitive literary theory provides the theoretical framework, as do the related fields of cognitive linguistics and experiential philosophy; historical constructions of the concept of growth are also examined within the context of the history of ideas. Cross-cultural literature from the traditional Bildungsroman to the contemporary Young Adult novel serve as examples. Literary Conceptualizations of Growth ultimately asserts that human cognitive structures are responsible for the pervasiveness of growth as both a metaphor and a narrative pattern in adolescent literature.
https://www.amazon.com/Literary-Conceptualizations-Growth-adolescent-literature/dp/9027201560/?tag=2022091-20
2014
Roberta Seelinger Trites was born on July 28, 1962, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. She is a daughter Robert T. Trites, a petroleum chemist, and Kathryn Trites, a registered nurse.
In 1983 Roberta Seelinger Trites received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas A&M University. In 1985 she obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Dallas. In 1991 Trites gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Baylor University.
Roberta Seelinger Trites was an instructor in communication at Central Texas College from 1988 to 1989. In 1989 she was an instructor in English at Austin Community College. From 1991 to 1997 she served as an assistant professor at Illinois State University, Normal. In 1997 Trites was appointed an associate professor of English, an associate dean of College of Arts and Sciences in 1998, and a faculty associate of Center for the Advancement of Teaching in 1998 in that institution.
(Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topi...)
2007(Literary Conceptualizations of Growth explores those proc...)
2014(The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a co...)
1998(Waking Sleeping Beauty explores issues of voice in a wide...)
1997(Each of us has a narrative compass, a story that has guid...)
2009On May 20, 1991, Roberta Trites married George F. Seelinger. They have three children: George Henry, John Russell, Katharine Anne.