Author

Maryanne Wolf

<a href="http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/fac/mwolf.childdev.htm">Maryanne Wolf</a> directs the <a href="http://ase.tufts.edu/crlr/">Center for Reading and Language Research</a> and is the John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service and professor of child development within the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. She is the author of <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Proust-Squid-Maryanne-Wolf/?isbn=9780060186395">“Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain,”</a> published by HarperCollins.

Our ‘Deep Reading’ Brain: Its Digital Evolution Poses Questions

‘The reading circuit’s very plasticity is also its Achilles’ heel. It can be fully fashioned over time and fully implemented when we read, or it can be short-circuited …’