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.
[2] She has written the following books: 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.
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