The National Resource Center for Translation and Global Literacy (CTGL) promotes translation and global literacy as modes of critical inquiry, practice, and training for future global citizens and professionals. 

CTGL directly responds to urgent national and international needs. Today’s extensive exchange of material and nonmaterial cultures across borders has made “interconnectedness” the hallmark of globalization, not to mention the global-scale challenges—the pandemic, climate-crisis, economic crises, wars, peace building, humanitarian crises, to name a few—that we must confront together.

To brave this vast geography of interconnectedness requires Global Literacy: an interdisciplinary reserve of knowledge and skills to support language mediation, intercultural understanding and communication, critical inquiry and creativity to advocate diversity, equity, inclusion and social justice an ethics of trust and empathy, and global engagement and collaboration.

In this new world, translation as mediation across languages and cultures becomes nothing less than a new epistemology—how we know the others, ourselves, and the dynamic diversity that shapes us. Because translation and global literacy are powerful means of cross-cultural immersion, discovery, and transformation, they present unparalleled opportunities for academic inquiry and professional capacity building.