Barry Sanders (professor)

Sanders received an MS from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960, and an MA from USC—University of Southern California in 1963. He earned a doctorate in Medieval literature from USC in 1966. He was featured on WNYC's Radiolab program in 2008, and is a contributing editor of North American Review. His projects increasingly occur at the intersection of art and activism. • Unsuspecting Souls: The Disappearance of The Human Being (2010) — the collusion of drugs and aesthetics in the late nineteenth century Victorian era. (finalist in the 2011 Oregon Book Award general nonfiction category.) • The Manifesto of Herman Melville (2025) - argues that Moby Dick is more than a novel in that it can be read as Melville's manifesto about the destruction of the natural world. Co-author • The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature (1985) — co-author Paul Shepard. • ABC, The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind (1988) — co-author Ivan Illich, on the shift from orality to literacy in the European Middle Ages. • ''Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land, 1619–2000'' (2004), co-author Francis D. Adams. ==References==