January 27, 2026 – How We Used to Read

29 January 2026

Phones, tablets, laptops, audiobooks: Has new technology ruined our students’ ability to read? Didn’t reading used to be more focused? Two scholars of medieval and nineteenth and twentieth-century literature will consider how we used to read and how we read now.

Alison Byerly, President
George Shuffelton, Helen F. Lewis Professor of English