Writer and editor Roberta Seelinger Trites reads from her new book Sept. 29
October 23, 2009
Writer and editor Roberta Seelinger Trites will give a reading and talk on Tuesday, September 29 at 4 p.m. in the Gottwald Science Center’s auditorium. A reception will follow in the atrium.
Trites is the co-editor of a book, A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives, from which she will read. The book examines the narrative compasses, or stories, that guide women’s lifework. Contributors are Deyonne Bryant, Minjie Chen, Cindy L. Christiansen, Beverly Lyon Clark, Karen Coats, Wendy Doniger, Bonnie Glass-Coffin, Betsy Hearne, Joanna Hearne, Ann Hendricks, Rania Huntington, Christine A. Jenkins, Kimberly J. Lau, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Maria Tatar, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, Roberta Seelinger Trites, Claudia Quintero Ulloa, and Ofelia Zepeda.
Trites is a professor of English at Illinois State University and a scholar of children’s and young adult literature. She is the author of two books, Waking Sleeping Beauty, a feminist reading of children’s literature, and Disturbing the Universe, about defining young adult literature.
The program is sponsored by the Department of English, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Office of Common Ground.
Posted August 28, 2009
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