Lyndsey Stonebridge

Lyndsey Stonebridge is professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience was published by Jonathan Cape and the Hogarth Press in January 2024.  Lyndsey is currently working on a new book Old Women: A History of our Future to be published in 2027. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster, and lives in London.