New MITH Assistant Director of Innovation and Learning Purdom Lindblad will lead this discussion about reading as a way to open ourselves to deepen empathy and entice our curiosity. Influenced by feminist interface design, this talk will focus on the design and creation of visualizations – as finding aids, and as maps into the landscape of a personal corpus. These visualizations enable movement between big-picture views of the corpus and close-readings of individual books, and can reveal adjacent thematic possibilities.