Dana Arnold is Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. Her work focuses on histories and historiographies of architecture and urbanism in relation to social and cultural theory. She is the author of The Georgian Country House: Architecture, Landscape and Society (1998); Re-presenting the Metropolis (2000); Reading Architectural History (2002); Rural Urbanism: London Landscapes in the Early Nineteenth Century (2006); The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680-1820 (2013); and Architecture and Ekphrasis: Space, Time and the Embodied Description of the Past (2020). Her most recent book British Architecture: A very short introduction, was published in 2024.