Alan Singer is Professor of English and a member of the faculty Temple’s Graduate Creative Writing Program.

He has published a theoretical study on formal invention in the novel, A Metaphorics of Fiction: Discontinuity and Discourse in the Modern Novel, and a study of the aesthetics of narrative, The Subject As Action: Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics. His most recent book is Aesthetic Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos, a defense of the cognitive value of aesthetic experience. Professor Singer has also co-edited a volume entitled Literary Aesthetics: A Reader. His current book project is a study of the relation of self-deception to aesthetic value. It is tentatively titled, Self-Deceiving Sense.

Alan Singer is also the author of four novels: The Ox-Breadth, The Charnel Imp, Memory Wax, and most recently, Dirtmouth. Excerpts from his current novel-in-progress, The Inquisitor’s Tongue, have appeared in Golden Handcuffs Review and Western Humanities Review.