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. 

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. 

Selected publications

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

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)

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Category:Living people
Category:1965 births
Category:Academics of the University of Birmingham
Category:British academics of English literature
Category:Alumni of the University of Sussex
Category:Alumni of the University of London
Category:Women academics
Category:Fellows of the English Association
Category:Rose Mary Crawshay Prize winners