Ara Merjian (NYU), for the dual project Blueprints and Ruins: Giorgio de Chirico and the Architectural Imagination from the Avant-Garde to Postmodernism and Meditations of a Painter: The Selected Writings of Giorgio de Chirico. 

Ara H. Merjian (BA, Yale University; PhD University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of Italian and Interim Chair of the Department of Italian Studies at NYU. His area of research focuses on Twentieth-century Italian and French Visual Arts and Theory, from Futurism and Surrealism to Pasolini and post-war Italian aesthetics and politics. One of the most respected scholars in his field, he has published, amongst others, Against the Avant-Garde. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism, U of Chicago Press, 2020; Fragments of Totality. Futurism, Fascism and the Sculptural Avant-Garde, Yale UP, 2024; and Futurism. A very Short Introduction, Oxford UP, 2025.