Lyndsey Stonebridge

She is a writer and teaches in the Department of English Literature and Interdisciplinary Chair of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, and she has also held fellowships and visiting positions at Cornell University, the University of Sydney, and the Holocaust Research at Royal Holloway University, London

Drawing on the interdisciplinary connections between literature, history, politics, law, and social policy, her books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees (OUP Oxford, 2018 – winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, and included in the Choice “Outstanding Academic Title” list) and The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) – winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature). Notable among her essays are Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights (OUP Oxford, 2020) and We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience (Jonathan Cape, 2024 – in Spanish, Somos libres de cambiar el mundo. Pensar como Hannah Arendt, Ariel, 2024).

Moreover, she has edited (with John Phillips) Reading Melanie Klein (Routledge,1998), and (with Marina MacKay) British Fiction after Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).