I’m Theo Avedisian. I’m at NYU studying linguistics and archaeology, and a lifelong New Yorker. I study not just what was written, but how and why it came to be.
My work is about ancient languages and scripts, especially the transformation of the Greek alphabet from its Semitic forebears. I read and research across Greek, Latin, Akkadian, Phoenician, and French, with special interests in epigraphy, paleography, and the intersections of material culture and language change. I also build digital tools and models to study writing systems computationally.
Here, you’ll find trilingual readings of Homer, notes from my Akkadian studies, reflections on carving or coding alphabetic forms, and dispatches from the NYU League of Linguistics. I write to stay close to what I’m learning and to leave a record for others who care about language, form, and fragments.
If any of this resonates, I’d love to hear from you: tfavdw@nyu.edu. You can also find me on Twitter @TheoAvedisian.
To Wake the Dead 