 Penny Sparke is a Professor of Design History and a Pro Vice-Chancellor at Kingston University, London. Professor Sparke is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the Society of Arts. She has taught the History of Design at Brighton Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art. She has worked in the field of late nineteenth and twentieth century Design History and has lectured, curated exhibitions, broadcast and published widely in the field both in the UK and overseas. A selection of her books include An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century; Design in Context; and As Long As It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste. A special interest has been the meaning of design within the context of consumption and its relationship with gender and identity, in addition to focusing on the ‘interior’. In 2005 she published a monograph on the American pioneer interior decorator, Elsie de Wolfe, and her book The Modern Interior will be published in the summer of 2008.
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