Let’s Learn Writing from Translators

Translators are some of the closest readers of the texts they set out to translate. Their investment in and investigation of texts reveal much about the intricacies of language: the opportunities it offers, the challenges it sets forth, its inseparability from culture, context, and politics. In this course, we’ll study translators’ works—their translations, notes, as well as memoirs—and discuss what we, as readers and writers, can learn from their insights into the literary arts.