# Maryanne Wolf
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maryanne wolf (born 1950) is the UCLA Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education and Director of the UCLA Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice and the Chapman University Presidential Fellow. She is also the former John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service, Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research, and Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University.
== Education and work ==
She completed her doctorate at Harvard University, in the Department of Human Development and Psychology in the Graduate School of Education, where she began her work in cognitive neuroscience and developmental psycholinguistics on the reading brain, literacy development, and dyslexia.
Grandparents and Drug Addiction-Your Brain on Digital
Maryanne Wolf, PhD, Professor of Child Development and Director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, and author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World discussed the latest research into the human brain as we become increasingly dependent on digita…
Regain The Power of Deep Reading | Cognitive Neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf
What if the way we read is changing the way we think?
In this episode of The Scholar's Armchair, I speak with cognitive neuroscientist and reading researcher Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid and Reader, Come Home, about one of the defining questions of our digital age.
Maryanne begin…
The Virtue of Reading | 384
When was the last time that you read a book. A serious book. Something stretched your mind? Something that you had to stop and go back and reread a sentence or paragraph to make sure you understood it? Maybe even learned some new words? New ideas? In this episode, let’s talk about why you should re…
104. Building the Biliterate Reading Brain: Multi-Component Instruction & Deep Reading with Dr. Maryanne Wolf
One of the most influential voices around “the reading brain”, Dr. Maryanne Wolf, joins the show to tackle that very subject. Our brains were never wired to read. Reading is a learned, plastic circuit that develops through instruction – and how we teach profoundly shapes how that circuitry is built…
With a decline in reading is our capacity to think eroding?
Thanks to AI, it's easier than ever to avoid reading books — but that convenience may come with a cost. IDEAS explores how our digital landscape, coupled with the decline of reading, is changing the way we think. *This episode originally aired on Feb. 19, 2026.
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What happens to our moral lives when we stop reading books?
According to every available metric, the number of people who read books across almost every demographic in countries like Australia and the United States has fallen precipitously over the last fifteen years. Whether it be for enjoyment or edification, reading books is no longer something many of u…
Bach at the Edge of the Year
The following reflection was given at Bach Vespers, January 18, 2026, at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.
I recently learned about an influential thinker who, before his death, had grave concerns about an emerging technology. He worried that this new technology encouraged us to outsource memory, to con…
Chapter Forty-Eight: Snickers Bar or Fine Dining?
Some books are a Snickers bar. Others deserve the full fine-dining treatment.
Megan, Debra, and Lance turn the focus from what we read to how we read, digging into attention, reading habits, and whether every book deserves the same kind of time and thought.
📖 Question of the Chapter:
How do you rea…
Reading Instruction Done Right with Nancy Blair and Pat Roberts
Episode 262
In this episode, we sit down with Nancy Blair and Pat Roberts, co-founders of AIM Academy and the AIM Institute for Learning & Research, to talk about how a school built on research came to be. Nancy and Pat share the story of meeting as parents of newly diagnosed daughters, and how tha…
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