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Professor Penny Sparke is a writer, academic and the Pro Vice-Chancellor in the Arts at Kingston University. She has taught the History of Design to undergraduate and postgraduate students at Brighton Polytechnic since 1975 and, from 1981 to 1999, at the Royal College of Art. She has also worked in the field of late nineteenth and twentieth century design history and has lectured and published widely in the UK and elsewhere.
Penny's books include An Introduction to Design and Culture in the Twentieth Century (HarperCollins 1986); Japanese Design (Michael Joseph 1987); Design in Context (Bloomsbury 1987); Italian Design (Thames & Hudson 1988); A Century of Car Design (Mitchell Beazley 2002) and Elsie de Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Design (Acanthus 2005). In As Long As It's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (Pandora/Thorsons 1995), Penny focused on issues concerning the relationship between design and gender.
Professor Sparke is a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the Society of Arts.
