Alan Singer's novels include, The
Ox-Breadth, The Charnel Imp, Memory Wax, Dirtmouth, and, most recently, The Inquisitor's Tongue.
His work has appeared in Western Humanities Review, TriQuarterly, Lazarus
Review, and Golden Handcuff's Review.
Professor Singer has published three works in the
area of literary theory and aesthetics: A Metaphorics
of Fiction: Discontinuity and Discourse in the Modern Novel, The Subject
As Action: Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics and Aesthetic
Reason: Artworks and the Deliberative Ethos, a defense of the
cognitive value of aesthetic experience. A new work, The Self-Deceiving
Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Artwill appear in 2010. Professor
Singer has also co-edited a volume entitled Literary Aesthetics: A
Aside from fiction workshops, Professor Singer
teaches courses in literary aesthetics, critical theory, the history of
criticism, and the history of the novel. Recent courses taught have included
"Epochs of Literary Criticism," "Contemporary Literary Criticism,"
Literary Aesthetics," "Value and Transgression in Literary
Form," "Interiority: The Literary Self After Enlightenment," and
"On Literary Modernity."