Mark Sanders is a graduate of Oberlin College and Brown University, Sanders researches and teaches African American and Afro-Latin American literature and culture at the University of Notre Dame. More specifically, he examines the ways in which Blacks across the Western Hemisphere participate in local, national, and international print cultures of the late nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries to enhance material, social, and political conditions. Sanders’s courses include “Early African American Prose,” “Twentieth-Century and Contemporary African American Poetry,” “African American Autobiography,” and “Afro-Cuban Literature and Culture.”
Sanders currently serves as the inaugural Director of the Notre Dame Initiative on Race and Resilience.
