Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

Twentieth-century literature and intellectual history; contemporary literature and theory; cultural histories of human rights, exile, and migration
Headshot of Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA (credit Catherine Shakespeare Lane)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023
Honours
FBA, FEA

Current post

University of Birmingham Professor of Humanities and Human Rights

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Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous

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