Mark Sanders
Professor, English and African and African American Studies
Director of the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience
Areas of study
- African and African American
- American
- Latinx
- Postcolonial/Global
Education
Ph.D. Brown University
M.A. Brown University
B.A. Oberlin College
Research and teaching interests
American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, American and African American poetics, race theory, the African American novel, African American autobiography, and Afro-Latin American Literature and culture
Biography
Specialties: Twentieth and twenty-first-century African American and Afro-Latin American literature and culture.
A professor of English and Africana Studies, Sanders specializes in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, American and African American poetics, race theory, the African American novel, African American autobiography, and Afro-Latin American Literature and culture. His publications include Semantics of the World: Selected Poems of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre (co-edited and co-translated with Nohora Arrieta Fernández), A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence, Sterling A. Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South (co-edited with John Edgar Tidwell), and Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown.
Sanders’s undergraduate and graduate courses on exploring issues of racial and cultural identity, citizenship, and freedom across the Western Hemisphere. Also, Sanders serves as the Director of the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience.
Representative publications
- Semantics of the World: Selected Poems of Rómulo Bustos Aguirre (co-edited and co-translated with Nohora Arrieta Fernández)
- A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence
- Sterling A. Brown’s A Negro Looks at the South (co-edited with John Edgar Tidwell)
- Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown
