Lyn­d­sey Stone­bridge is a pro­fes­sor of human­i­ties and human rights at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Birm­ing­ham (UK) and a Fel­low of the British Acad­e­my. Her pre­vi­ous books include Place­less Peo­ple: Writ­ing, Rights, and Refugees, win­ner of the Mod­ernist Stud­ies Asso­ci­a­tion Book Prize and a Choice­Out­stand­ing 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. She is a reg­u­lar media com­men­ta­tor and broad­cast­er. She lives in Lon­don and France.