Biography

Marc Singer is a Professor of English at Howard University. He studies twentieth and twenty-first-century American literature, with interests in contemporary fiction, comics, and film.

Dr. Singer holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before coming to Howard, he taught at the University of Maryland, Mary Washington College, and Tennessee State University. He is the author of Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies (Univ. of Texas Press, 2018) and Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2012) and the editor, with Nels Pearson, of Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World (Ashgate, 2009). He is an Associate Editor for Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society and he previously served as the chair of the International Comic Arts Forum. His research on comics has twice won the M. Thomas Inge Award.