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.
[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.
[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.
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.
Since 2022, Bound Alberti has contributed to several international debates on the ethics of facial transplantation as a form of Vascularized Composite Allografts (VCA).
Fay is currently writing two books about faces and transplants and her literary agent Is Adam Gauntlett at Peters, Fraser + Dunlop.