Lyndsey Stonebridge (FBA) is a writer, critic, and Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham in the UK. Born in London, Lyndsey attended North London Polytechnic in the 1980s where she gained her first political education. After that, she went to Sussex University for her MA in Critical Theory, before returning to London to write a PhD on psychoanalysis and modernism.

She understood early on that thinking matters beyond universities and libraries, and has since pushed against institutional and social boundaries in search of new spaces for intellectual, political and moral engagement. In her academic life, she works across traditional disciplines, bringing literary and historical insights to law and political theory. A regular journalist and broadcaster, she is driven by a passionate commitment to public education and the real-world value of the arts and humanities.

Her writing explores themes of justice, exile, and above all, the political and moral life of the mind. Her previous books include The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg, which won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 2014, and Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees which was awarded the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize in 2018. In 2020, she published a collection of essays, Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights, which drew on her journalism and her work with two major international research projects, Refugee Hosts and Rights4Time.