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• PhD, University of London.
• MA Critical Theory, University of Sussex.
• BA (Hons) English, 1st Class, Polytechnic of North London.

Lyndsey Stonebridge joined the Department of English Literature and the Institute into Research into Superdiversity at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡, as Interdisciplinary Chair in Humanities and Human Rights in September 2018.ÌýShe also teaches in the Law School. This innovative interdisciplinary appointment is designed to further new understandings of how the arts and humanities connect with wider global histories of justice and human rights. Before coming to Birmingham, Professor Stonebridge had a long career at the University of East Anglia, where, among other roles, she was the founding Associate Dean of the Arts and Humanities Graduate School. Interdisciplinarity and the real-world relevance of humanities scholarship are core to her thinking, writing, and teaching.Ìý She broadcasts, writes, and blogs regularly in the media on the cultural politics of human rights and, most recently, refugees and migration.Ìý

• Interdisciplinary Human Rights and Refugee Studies
• Modern, Contemporary, and Postcolonial literatures
• Hannah Arendt and Critical Theory

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Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge’s work focuses on twentieth-century and contemporary literature, political theory, and history, Human Rights, and Refugee Studies, drawing on the interdisciplinary connections between literature, history, politics, law, and social policy. Her early work was concerned with the effects of modern violence on the mind in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (The Destructive ElementÌý(1998),ÌýReading Melanie KleinÌý(1998) andÌýThe Writing of AnxietyÌý(2007). Over the past ten years her research has focussed on the creative history of responses to that violence in two awarding-winning books,ÌýÌý(2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, 2014, andÌýÌý(2018), winner of the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize 2018, and in her recent collection of essays,ÌýÌý(2020).Ìý

The work of the twentieth-century political theorist, Hannah Arendt, is central to Professor Stonebridge’s understanding of modern history, violence, statelessness, and judgement. She is currently writing a critical-creative account of the relevance Arendt’s thinking for today,Ìý,Ìýwhich will be published by Jonathan Cape in 2022.ÌýÌý

The interdisciplinary focus of Professor Stonebridge’s work is key to her wider project to re-cast global histories of human rights and justice across a broad and comparative modern moral and political canvas, such, for example, as in the collaborative Global Challenges project with refugees and their host communities in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey,Ìý, and with the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡â€™sÌýÌýGlobal network.

She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster, and has written forÌýThe New Statesman,ÌýProspect Magazine.ÌýShe is co-editor of Oxford University Press’sÌýMid-Century Series,Ìýand has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. In 2017, she was elected as a Fellow of the English Association, and in 2019 was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

• Co-editor, with Allan Hepburn and Adam Piette, Mid-Century Series, Oxford University Press.
• Member AHRC ODA Peer Review College, MLA Memory Studies Executive.
• Editorial Boards: Migration and Society, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development; History: The Journal of the Historical Association, Psychoanalysis and History, Futures of the Archive: Theory, Life and Technology, English Association Monographs: English at the Interface.