A second that grows first, a black unreal in which a real lies hidden and alive: the fiction of A.S. Byatt

Introducing Labour (and Work) in Translation and Interpreting
Alfer, A. and Zwischenberger, C. 2026. Introducing Labour (and Work) in Translation and Interpreting. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. 38 (4).

Translaboration: Translation and Labour
Zwischenberger, C. and Alfer, A. 2022. Translaboration: Translation and Labour. Translation in Society. 1 (2), pp. 200-223. https://doi.org/10.1075/tris.21016.zwi

Book Review: Malmkjær, K., Şerban, A., & Louwagie, F. (Eds.). (2018). Key cultural texts in translation. John Benjamins. 320 pp.
Alfer, A. 2020. Book Review: Malmkjær, K., Şerban, A., & Louwagie, F. (Eds.). (2018). Key cultural texts in translation. John Benjamins. 320 pp. Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series – Themes in Translation Studies (LANS-TTS). 19, pp. 267-272.

The translaborative case for a translational hermeneutics
Alfer, A. 2020. The translaborative case for a translational hermeneutics. Target. 32 (2), pp. 261-281. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20105.alf

Entering the Translab: Translation as Collaboration, Collaboration as Translation, and the Third Space of ‘Translaboration’
Alfer, A. 2017. Entering the Translab: Translation as Collaboration, Collaboration as Translation, and the Third Space of ‘Translaboration’. Translation and Translanguaging in Multicultural Contexts. 3 (3), pp. 275-290. https://doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.3.3.01alf

Time Will Tell: Time and Narrative in A. S. Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden
Alfer, A. 2017. Time Will Tell: Time and Narrative in A. S. Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden. in: Parey, Armelle and Roblin, Isabelle (ed.) A. S. Byatt, Possession, Before and After: Recent Critical Approaches Nancy Presses Universitaires de Nancy - Editions Universitaires de Lorraine. pp. 33-50

A.S. Byatt: critical storytelling
Alfer, A. and Edwards de Campos, A. 2010. A.S. Byatt: critical storytelling. Manchester Manchester University Press.

Realism and its discontents: the virgin in the garden and still life
Alfer, A. 2001. Realism and its discontents: the virgin in the garden and still life. in: Alfer, A. and Noble, M.J. (ed.) Essays on the fiction of A.S. Byatt: imagining the real Westport, Conneticut Greenwood Press.