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This course explores how 20th and 21st century Anglophone authors resist the rising dominance of English as the language of social, economic and cultural power by inserting multilingualism into English-dominant literature, either through direct translation, codeswitching, language creation, or other forms of linguistic interweaving. Course readings will include multilingual works by writers such as Juan Felipe Herrera, Xu Bing, Samuel Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ted Chiang, and will feature forms of linguistic expression ranging from indigenous pictographic writing to sci-fi alien languages. We will complement these readings with texts from the fields of translation theory and postcolonial studies, including selections from Gloria Anzaldúa, Walter Benjamin, Amitav Ghosh, and Jacques Derrida. Student will learn how to read and write about this kind of theory, while also developing their skills in archival research through visits to the Library Special Collections. This course will be accessible to students regardless of linguistic background, and no additional foreign language skills are necessary. Instead, as we bring our speculative curiosity to texts containing languages we may not be able speak or read, we will confront - and upend - assumptions about the linguistic Other. We will also reflect on the different ways we use language in everyday life, and consider how we might translate that usage into our own writing. (Note: This Writing-Intensive Seminar in English (WISE) course fulfills WIM for English majors. Non-majors are welcome, space permitting. For enrollment permission contact farrahm@stanford.edu.)