A Reading List on Reading.
Professor Ben Davies (University of Southern Denmark) A Reading List on Reading. Much of my recent research focuses on the relations between reading, readers, and time use, both inside and…
‘Death of Reading’?: There’s no real war between print and digital media
Dr JT Welsch (University of York) I keep reading that reading is a dying pastime. Every day, a new study shames our shrinking attention spans, or a professor moans that…
Reading Matters: Middlemarch
Professor Gail Marshall (University of Reading) Reading Matters: Middlemarch The material book I am exceptionally lucky to have on my shelves a first edition of Middlemarch, the very generous…
Two books changed my life.
Dr Rebecca Fisher (English Association) Two books changed my life. As a teenager, I read A. S. Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden, and something fundamental shifted in the way books…
Really reading
Professor Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University) We live in what’s called an ‘attention economy’: Insta, YouTube, TikTok and all the other sites want our eyes on them. They want our attention.…
Reading is a very complex word
Professor Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway University of London) Reading is a very complex word. In educational discourse, it’s used in three ways which are overlapping but can, irritatingly, work against each…