Profile and Interview: First Professor of Humanities and Human Rights

The humanities professor discusses her passion for human rights, how universities can work with refugees, and learning to stop apologising.

by Matthew Reisz for Times Higher Education

‘Lyndsey Stonebridge took up an interdisciplinary chair in humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham in September. She worked for many years at the University of East Anglia, where she served as founding associate dean of the Arts and Humanities Graduate School, and has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. Her books on 20th-century and contemporary literature and history include, most recently, Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees (2018)…’

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