ABSTRACT
As language professors at two different colleges, we have translated texts in such fields as literature, culture, medicine, social justice, and law. Both of us have taught seminars on translation, where we have seen that translation exercises are necessarily an act of reading in depth. Translation is a marvelous tool for any reader, but especially for students and professors wishing to improve their skills in entering into texts. In this chapter, we will attempt to show translation as a microscope that allows us to immerse ourselves in some of the innumerable elements that fuse together to form a text, and to show how they mirror the depths of the human mind and imagination, and of language itself.
