Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf is Visiting Professor and Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA. She is the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (14 translations; HarperCollins, 2007); Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (HarperCollins, 2018). Dr. Wolf is also the former John DiBiaggio Professor of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, the Chapman University’s Presidential Fellow (2018-2020) and past Fellow (2014-2015) and Research Affiliate (2016-2017) at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

Her awards include highest honors from International Dyslexia Association (Geschwind and Orton awards) and Dyslexia Foundation (Einstein Prize); Distinguished Researcher of the Year for Learning Disabilities in Australia; Distinguished Teacher of the Year from state and national American Psychological Association; Fulbright Fellowship (Germany); and Columbus Award for Intellectual Innovation for co-founding Curious Learning: A Global Literacy Initiative, with deployments in Africa, India, Australia, and the rural United States. She is external advisor to the International Monetary Fund and other Boards, and a frequent speaker about global literacy at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. She has authored over 160 scientific publications; RAVE-O reading curriculum for dyslexia; and RAN/RAS tests of reading prediction with Martha Denckla.

Dr. Wolf joined the board of the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation in 2018.