Barbara Penner is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. She is author of Bathroom (Reaktion, 2014 - short-listed for the RIBA President's Awards for Outstanding University-Located Research), Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America (UPNE, 2009), and is co-editor of Gender Space Architecture (Routledge, 2000).

Barbara regularly lectures in institutions across the UK, Japan, and North America. She is a regular columnist for architectural magazines like Places and Architectural Review. She serves as a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Architecture (2011-) and Interiors: Architecture, Design, Culture (2009-) and is a Board Member of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain.