Fay Bound Alberti

Fay Bound Alberti (born 1971) is a British cultural historian of medicine and science and an honorary senior research fellow in history at Queen Mary University of London.

Early life and education

Fay Bound Alberti was born in 1971. She 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 completed post-doctoral research in the history of medicine from 2001 to 2004 at University College London and undertook further studies at the Institute for Philanthropy and the London Business School.

Career

Alberti has taught at several British universities including the 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 been the Arcadia Foundation's Head of Philanthropy and Head of Medical Humanities Grants at the Wellcome Trust.[1]

Writing and media

Alberti is the author of Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion (2010), a history of cultural narratives of the heart and notions of selfhood,[2] and This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture (2016).[3] Matters of the Heart was shortlisted for the Longman History Today award for book of the year.[4]

Alberti is part of the History Girls blogging collective,[5] and has written for The F-Word feminist blog on the intersections between softcore pornography and the modern music video,[6] and for Open Democracy on open access to academic works.[7]

Alberti was interviewed by Julie Beck for The Atlantic Magazine in 2017 on the cultural and psychological history of human perceptions of the heart.[8] Alberti appeared on 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.[9][10]

Selected publications

  • Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion. Oxford University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-160917-6.
  • This Mortal Coil: The Human Body in History and Culture. Oxford University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-979339-6.

References

  1. 1 2 "This Mortal Coil - Fay Bound Alberti". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Gail Kern Paster. "Book Reviews -Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion". PMC 3199668. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ↑ Kate Womesley. "The Enduring Mystery of the Human Body". The Spectator. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Shortlist for Longman - History Today Book of the Year". Longman. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "The History Girls: About us". The History Girls. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Sex and the Music Video". The F-Word. 1 February 2017. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Democratic access to academic knowledge". Open Democracy. 23 June 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  8. ↑ Julie Beck (4 August 2016). "In a Brainy Age, the Heart Retains its Symbolic Power". The Atlantic Magazine. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  9. ↑ "Free Thinking June 23 2016". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "In Our Time June 1 2006". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
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