Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf is a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading and language, known for her research on dyslexia, the reading brain, and literacy in a digital age. She is Professor-in-Residence of Education and Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and is a permanent academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Previously, she was the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. She completed her doctorate at Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, after earning degrees in English literature from Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame) and Northwestern University.

Wolf is the author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, which examines how digital media may be reshaping our capacity for deep reading, critical thinking, and empathy. Her other books include Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century, and the edited volume Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain. In addition to her books, she