Robert Singer is a Full Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, and an adjunct professor of Liberal Studies and Film Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA. He specializes in the areas of literary/film studies, genre theory, and the silent film era. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University in the areas of literary and film studies.

          Robert Singer has published articles in many leading collections and periodicals: Excavatio, The Mellen Series in Comparative Literature, The Rodopi Perspectives in Modern Literature, Film/Literature Quarterly, The Golden Age of Film, PostScript, The Centennial Review, among others. He has co-authored a text entitled The History of Brooklyn's Performing Arts Institutions (Scarecrow 2002) and co-edited a collection bearing the title The Brooklyn Film: Essays in the History of Filmmaking (McFarland 2002). With Anna Gural-Migdal, he co-edited a collection of essays entitled Zola and Film: Essays in the Art of Adaptation, with a Foreword by Brigitte Émile-Zola, (McFarland 2005). He is currently working on two new books: the first, on international naturalist film, and the second on dystopian film narrative.

          In addition to his academic pursuits, Robert Singer is also a filmmaker. He has written and directed several films: "Necessary Being," "City Gods," and the award-winning adaptation of Poe’s short story, "The Tell-Tale Heart," which was shown at several festivals. He believes in the spirit of independent filmmaking -- raw, 16mm, but with a poetic intensity -- as an informing artistic principle.

          Robert Singer is currently the AIZEN Vice President, and he is responsible for the AIZEN Film Festival.