Career
He currently teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art, and is a contributing editor at the North American Review. Sanders received an Mississippi from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1960, and an Master of Arts from University of Southern California—University of Southern California in 1963. He earned a doctorate in Medieval literature from University of Southern California in 1966.
Sanders joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University, and helped students start a radical newspaper to protest the war in Vietnam and organized a three-day teach-in.
He received death threats and a request from administrators to take his talents elsewhere. A stint at Valley State College (CSUN) in California ended the same way, Sanders was fired in 1971 not long after being arrested at an anti-war protest along with 200 students.
In 1972 he started teaching at Pitzer College in Claremont, and was a professor in the departments of Literature and the History of Ideas for 33 years. He was the first to hold the Peter South. and Gloria Gold Chair at Pitzer, and retired from the college in 2005.
He has recently been featured on Way of New York City"s Radiolab program, and is a contributing editor of North American Review.
Sanders currently teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon. He is Founding Company-chair of the Master of Arts in Critical Theory and Creative Research at the PNCA Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies and the Ford Institute for Visual Education. His projects increasingly occur at the intersection of art and activism.
Publications = Author 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) = Company-author
