Lyndsey Stonebridge

Lyndsey Stonebridge FEA (born February 1965) is professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. Her work relates to refugee studies, human rights, and the effects of violence. Her book, The Judicial Imagination (2016) won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English literature. She is regular radio and media commentator.

Early life

Lyndsey Stonebridge was born in London. She earned her BA at the Polytechnic of North London, an MA in critical theory from the University of Sussex, and her PhD at the University of London.[1]

Personal life

Stonebridge is married to the political economist Shaun Hargreaves Heap. They live in the UK and France, with their two children

Career

Lyndsey Stonebridge is professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. Before that, she was Professor of Modern Literature and History at the University of East Anglia, where she founded the Arts and Humanities Graduate School. Her work relates to refugee studies, human rights, and the effects of violence. Her book, The Judicial Imagination (2016) won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English literature. She was elected a fellow of the English Association in 2017.[1]

Selected publications

Authored
  • The Destructive Element: British Psychoanalysis and Modernism. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998.[2]
  • The Writing of Anxiety: Imagining Wartime in 1940s British Culture. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2007.
  • The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2011.[3]
  • Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018.[4]

Edited
  • Reading Melanie Klein. Routledge, London and New York, 1998. (edited with John Phillips)
  • British Fiction after Modernism: The Novel at Mid-Century. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2007. (edited with Marina Mackay)

References
  1. Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge. University of Birmingham. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. "The Destructive Element - British Psychoanalysis and Modernism - Lyndsey Stonebridge - Palgrave Macmillan". Palgrave.com. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  3. "Lefebvre on Stonebridge, 'The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg' - H-Law - H-Net". Networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  4. Stonebridge, Lyndsey (25 October 2018). "Placeless People: Writings, Rights, and Refugees". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 21 September 2018.


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