The Power of Deep Reading
A Conversation with Maryanne Wolf
About the Event
How does deep reading help us develop our capacity for empathy and insight? And how is reading changing as we enter the digital age?
Join us for a conversation with Maryanne Wolf, author of the acclaimed books Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World and Proust and the Squid. We will explore how deep reading distinctly nourishes the brain and soul and why aspects of deep reading may be declining in our digital world.
Who's Speaking
Maryanne Wolf
Maryanne Wolf is the Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice and Professor-in-Residence, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, at University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (Harper), Proust and the Squid (HarperCollins), Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press), and more than 160 scientific publications.
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