Barbara Penner

Barbara Penner(born 1970) is anarchitectural historianand Professor of Architectural Humanities at theBartlett School of Architecture,University College London.She is a specialist in the history of small spaces, specifically the bathroom and toilet, and has written on the institution of thehoneymoonin 19th century North America.

Penner received her BA in English literature and history of art fromMcGill Universityin 1994, her Master of Science in architectural history fromUniversity College Londonin 1996, and her PhD fromBirkbeck Collegein 2003.

Barbara has received a variety of fellowships and awards, including from The Leverhulme Trust, The Clark Art Institute, Cornell University, the Winterthur Museum and the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History. She has recently concluded a major Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme grant, Printing the Past: Architecture, Print Culture, and Uses of the Past in Modern Europe, led by theOslo School of Architecture and Design,with partners from digital media lab Factum Arte, Ghent University, Leiden University, Musée d’Orsay, and the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Selected publications

• Gender space architecture: An interdisciplinary introduction.Routledge, London, 1999. (Edited with Iain Borden and Jane Rendell)ISBN978-0415172530
• Ladies and gents: Public toilets and gender.Temple University Press,2009. (Edited with Olga Gershenson)ISBN978-1592139392
• Newlyweds on tour: Honeymooning in nineteenth-century America.University Press of New England,Lebanon, 2009.ISBN9781584657736
• Bathroom.Reaktion Books, 2013.ISBN9781780231938(RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University-Located Research, 2014)

External links

• Barbara Penner | Places Journal
• VIEWPOINTS: BARBARA PENNER