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Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

Twentieth-century literature and intellectual history; contemporary literature and theory; cultural histories of human rights, exile, and migration

Elected 2023

Headshot of Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA (credit Catherine Shakespeare Lane)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023
Honours
FBA, FEA
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830, Modern History from 1850
Website
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/stonebridge-lyndsey.aspx

Current post

University of Birmingham Professor of Humanities and Human Rights

Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness

23 Aug 2024 Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the most influential political theorists and philosophers of the 20th Century. Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA explores three of Arendt's key concepts – totalitarianism, statelessness and the banality of evil – to explain the importance of her thinking for our times.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nigel Leask FBA

Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.

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Professor Elizabeth Boa FBA

German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing

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Professor Robert Crawford FBA

Scottish literature: T S Eliot; modern & contemporary poetry; creative writing (particularly poetry)

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