Librarian, educator, author, ALA member
Sam Houston State University, American Library Association, North Texas Teen Book Festival
Rose Brock, Ph.D, is a veteran educator and specialist in literature for young people who spent twenty years as a public school educator working as a language arts teacher and a school librarian. She now works as an associate professor in the Department of Library Science and Technology at Sam Houston State University.
She is the author of the textbook, Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide and editor of the young adult anthology, Hope Nation: Young Adult Authors Share Personal Moments of Inspiration. Rose is also the cofounder of the ALA award winning North Texas Teen Book Festival, described by the Dallas Morning News as “the region's largest book-related event”. In addition to her work on NTTBF, Rose has been a tireless and advocate for using audiobooks as tools for literacy and is cofounder of the national literacy initiative Guys Listen, a part of the Guys Read literacy national program. Rose’s next professional publication, Sound Advice: An Audiobook Selection Handbook for Library Collections will be available in 2022.
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Saturday, June 25, 2022
9:00am – 10:00am