Fay Bound Alberti

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Fay Bound Alberti (born 1971) is a British cultural historian of gender, emotion and medicine, and Professor of Modern History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at King's College London, where she is PI of Interface and Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body. She was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of York. Bound Alberti is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and previously foundation future leader at the Foundation for Science and Technology.

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Early life and education

Fay Bound Alberti was born in Morecambe, Lancashire and raised in Wales. Her brother is the British Cinematographer Lol Crawley. Fay received her B.A. in History and English from the University of Wales in 1995, after which she completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in history at the University of York (1996–2000). She has won more than £3 million in research funding and has completed post-doctoral research in history of medicine from 2001 to 2004 at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. She undertook further studies at the Institute for Philanthropy and the London Business School.

Career

Bound Alberti has taught at several British universities including the Open University, University of Lancaster, the University of Manchester and University College London and was one of the founders of the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University. [1] She has interests outside of academia, having been the Head of philanthropy for the Arcadia Foundation, the charitable foundation of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, and head of medical humanities grants at the Wellcome Trust. [1] In 2019 she was named by the MP Chris Skidmore as one of the first UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellows, to pursue her research into the cultural history and emotions of face transplants as part of the AboutFace project. [2] [3] She took up this post at the University of York, where she was Professor in History. [4] In 2023, Bound Alberti joined King's College London as Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body. The AboutFace project has entered its second phase as Interface, a research project which explores the relationship between identity, emotion, and communication, as revealed through the human face.

Writing and media

Fay Bound Alberti is an accomplished author and academic who specialises in history, medicine, and emotion. She is known for her insightful works, including Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion (2010), This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (2016), [5] and ABiography of Loneliness: the history of an Emotion. [6] A Biography of Loneliness is currently undergoing translation into multiple languages, including simple and complex Chinese. [7] Notably, Matters of the Heart was shortlisted for the prestigious Longman History Today award for Book of the Year, [8] while This Mortal Coil received recognition as a finalist for the BSHS Dingle Prize. [9]

Until 2019 Bound Alberti was part of the History Girls blogging collective, [10] and has written for The F-Word feminist blog on the intersections between softcore pornography and the modern music video, [11] and for Open Democracy on open access to academic works. [12] She has written several articles on loneliness for Aeon Magazine, [13] The Conversation [14] and The Guardian newspaper [15] [16] and is a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement.

Bound Alberti was interviewed by Julie Beck for The Atlantic Magazine in 2017 on the cultural and psychological history of human perceptions of the heart. [17] Bound Alberti has appeared on several television and radio programmes to discuss her work, including BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking to discuss This Mortal Coil in 2016 and on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time to discuss the heart in 2006. [18] [19] She also appeared on the Radio 4 series on the heart with the cleric and broadcaster Giles Fraser. [20] On the topic of loneliness, she was interviewed by CBC news, BBC Radio 3 and 4, including BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed, [21] Global News for the Charles Adler show. [22] Bound Alberti also took part in a video interview with Saprina Panday for Women's Health Interactive. [23] She is a TED speaker, having spoken on loneliness at the TED Summit in Edinburgh, 2019. [24] Fay is an outspoken critic of the medicalization of loneliness without reference to its social, economic and historical origins, especially during the 2019-2021 pandemic.

Since 2022, Bound Alberti has contributed to several international debates on the ethics of facial transplantation as a form of Vascularized Composite Allografts (VCA). Her articles include What we still don't know about vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) outcomes and quality of life measurements and Blueprint for Sustainable Face Transplant Policy and Practice [25] and'International consensus recommendations on Face Transplantation: A 2-step Delphi study''. Fay is currently writing two books about faces and transplants and her literary agent Is Adam Gauntlett at Peters, Fraser + Dunlop.

Selected publications

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  2. ↑ "First UKRI Future Leaders Fellows announced". 7 May 2019. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  3. ↑ "Home". AboutFace. Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Bound Alberti, Fay (20 May 2019). "University of York staff page" . Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  5. ↑ Kate Womersley. "The Enduring Mystery of the Human Body". The Spectator. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Bound Alberti, Fay (12 September 2019). A biography of loneliness : the history of an emotion. Oxford. ISBN   978-0-19-881134-3. OCLC   1090174746.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ Eagleton, Terry (19 March 2020). "A History of Solitude by David Vincent; A Biography of Loneliness by Fay Bound Alberti – review". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 March 2020.
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  11. ↑ "Sex and the Music Video". The F-Word. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  12. ↑ "Democratic access to academic knowledge". Open Democracy. 23 June 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  13. ↑ Bound Alberti, Fay. "One is the loneliest number: the history of a western problem".
  14. ↑ "Fay Bound Alberti". The Conversation. 25 August 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  15. ↑ Bound Alberti, Fay (20 June 2019). "So British people aren't socialising much? That doesn't mean they're lonely". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  16. ↑ Bound Alberti, Fay (1 November 2018). "Loneliness is a modern illness of the body, not just the mind". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  17. ↑ Julie Beck (4 August 2016). "In a Brainy Age, the Heart Retains its Symbolic Power". The Atlantic Magazine. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  18. ↑ "Free Thinking June 23 2016". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  19. ↑ "In Our Time June 1 2006". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  20. ↑ Bound Alberti, Fay (7 December 2017). "This old heart of mind". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
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  23. ↑ "The Origins & Culture Of Loneliness And Its Effects On Community". Women's Health Interactive. 3 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  24. ↑ Alberti, Fay Bound (24 January 2020), A historical journey through loneliness , retrieved 25 March 2020
  25. ↑ https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/fay.bound_alberti
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