Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, a teacher, and an advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Previously she was the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. She is the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (2007, HarperCollins), Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain (Edited; York, 2001), Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (2016, Oxford University Press), and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (August, 2018, HarperCollins).

She has received multiple awards, including the highest awards from the International Dyslexia Association and the Dyslexia Foundation for her research on cognitive neuroscience and dyslexia. For her teaching she received the American Psychological Association and the Massachusetts Psychological Association awards for Distinguished Teacher of the Year. For her work on the impact of digital mediums on reading, she received the Walter Ong Award and the Alfred Korzybski Award. For her translational work for education, she was awarded the Benita Blackman award for contributions to literacy instruction. She is a Fulbright scholar and the author of over 170 publications on literacy, the reading brain, dyslexia, and reading in a digital culture. She was recently named a permanent member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Science.