Paul Stirton is associate professor of modern design history at Bard Graduate Center in New York City and the editor-in-chief of West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture. Educated at the universities of Edinburgh and London (Courtauld Institute), he received his Ph.D from the University of Glasgow. He has published widely in the areas of British and Central European design including “Is Mr. Ruskin Living too Long?”: Selected Writings of E.W. Godwin (2005), Britain and Hungary: Contacts in Architecture and Design (2001) and the Blue Guide to Provence and the Cote d’Azur. He was curator of the exhibition Jan Tschichold and the New Typography in the Spring of 2019, and author of the book with the same title (Yale, 2019)