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Fay Bound Alberti

About the Author

Fay Bound Alberti is a cultural historian of gender, emotion and medicine, and professor of modern history at King’s College London, where she is the director of the Centre for Technology and the Body. She has worked extensively across disciplines, engaging with sociology, anthropology, literary and gender theory, and her books range from the history of the body to the cultural meanings of the heart and the politics of loneliness. She has written three previous academic books, which have won a variety of awards, and her writing has been featured in Aeon Magazine, The Conversation, The Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a TED speaker, having spoken on loneliness at the TED Summit in Edinburgh, 2019, and has been interviewed by The Atlantic Magazine and a variety of radio programs for her previous work.
 

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