Ty Davidian

Ty Davidian is a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate in Italian with Ph.D. Minors in Art History and French. He is a Getty Foundation Grantee and a Peter D. Stansky Modern British History and Culture Fellow. 

He is also the Founder and Curator of The Futurist Archive, the largest internet archive for Italian Futurism. The Futurist Archive is also active on Internet Archive, where it provides scans of hard-to-find Italian Futurist materials. In 2025, The Futurist Archive was awarded the first place prize in the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, organized by the ABAA and Library of Congress, as well as the Byra J. and William P. Wreden Prize for Collecting Books and Related Materials at Stanford.

His research interests broadly revolve around the early 20th-century avant-garde, more specifically Futurism, Orphism, and Synchromism. His dissertation, titled “1911: The Ghostly Moment of Futurism,” focuses on representations of ghosts (e.g., ghost bodies, ghost trains, and ghost notes) in First Futurist art and literature.

He also has secondary research interests in contemporary Italophone literature, in particular the first-generation writings of Saidou Moussa Ba, Pap Khouma, and Mohamed Bouchane.