--- title: Fay Bound-Alberti | TIME description: Fay Bound-Alberti is a professor of modern history at King's College London. Her book The Face: A Cultural History is published by Hachette. canonical: https://time.com/author/fay-bound-alberti/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/fay-bound-alberti/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Fay Bound-Alberti ## Fay Bound-Alberti Fay Bound-Alberti is a professor of modern history at King's College London. Her book [The Face: A Cultural History](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/fay-bound-alberti/the-face/9781538766538/) is published by Hachette. ## Fay Bound-Alberti *  May 3, 2026 ### [Face Value: Why ‘Looksmaxxing’ Is More Than Mewing and Mirrors](https://time.com/article/2026/05/02/face-value-why-looksmaxxing-is-more-than-hope-and-mirrors/) "What looksmaxxing really reveals is not a failure of individual young men, but a failure of everyth... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 29, 2020 ### [Loneliness Is a Modern Invention](https://time.com/5828736/loneliness-coronavirus-history/) It's important to remember that loneliness is not a universal human condition, but a historically sp... [HISTORY](/section/history/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/fay-bound-alberti/","name":"Fay Bound-Alberti"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/fay-bound-alberti/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/fay-bound-alberti/"},"name":"Fay Bound-Alberti","jobTitle":"","description":"Fay Bound-Alberti is a professor of modern history at King's College London. Her book The Face: A Cultural History is published by Hachette.","url":"https://time.com/author/fay-bound-alberti/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```