Barry Sanders

Barry Sanders is an American writer and academic who taught literature and the history of ideas at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, for 33 years. He held the college’s Peter S. and Gloria Gold Chair and retired in 2005. Sanders earned a master’s degree from UCLA, a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, and a doctorate in medieval literature from USC.

He is the author or coauthor of fourteen books and more than fifty essays and articles. His works include A Is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media, and the Silencing of the Written Word, Sudden Glory, The Private Death of Public Discourse, Alienable Rights with Francis Adams, and ABC with Ivan Illich.