Alistair Stead has recently retired from the School of English, The University of Leeds, where he has taught English and American Literature since 1964. He has co-edited several books of literary criticism, most recently, Translating Life: Studies in Transpositional Aesthetics (1999), which includes an essay by Geoffrey Hill. He co-edits the James Joyce Broadsheet and has published essays on twentieth-century fiction.

Alistair Stead's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one article.