dylan trigg
Dylan Trigg is an FWF Senior Researcher at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy. He has previously held several positions, including: Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at the University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy & University College Dublin (2014-2017); Irish Research Council Fellow at University College Dublin (2012-2014); CNRS/VolkswagenStiftung Postdoc at Les Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure (2012-2013); and CNRS/VolkswagenStiftung Postdoc at Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée (2011-2012).
He earned his PhD at the University of Sussex (2009), MA at the University of Sussex (2005), and BA at the University of London, Birkbeck College (2004). He has also been a visiting scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Art and Design and University of Duquesne, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center.
He is the author of several books including "Topophobia: a Phenomenology of Anxiety" (2017); "The Thing: a Phenomenology of Horror" (2014); and "The Memory of Place: a Phenomenology of the Uncanny" (2012). His research interests include phenomenology, embodiment, and aesthetics.
NEWS
Event: Philosophies of Nostalgia @ University of Vienna, April 2024. LINK
Publication: Becker, Tobias & Trigg, Dylan. The Routledge Handbook of Nostalgia (London: Routledge, 2024) LINK
Publication: “Homeward Bound: On the Poetics of Nostalgia in Edward Casey.” In Thinking at the Edge: Critically Engaging the Work of Edward S. Casey (Edited by Brian Schroeder) New York: SUNY Press (2024). LINK
Publication: "A Melancholic Joy: On the Role Habits Play in Nostalgia.” In Broken Habits. Edited by Line Ryberg Ingerslev and Karl Mertens. London: Routledge (2024). LINK
Publication: “A Phenomenology of Belonging to the Past.” In Phenomenology of Belonging. Edited by L. Dolezal and Petherbridge, D. New York: SUNY Press (2024).*
Publication: “Nostalgia and Well-Being: an Existentialist Analysis.” In The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Existentialism. Edited by K. Aho. London: Routledge (2023) LINK
Event: Nostalgia Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis @ Freud Museum, May 20th, 2022 LINK
Publication: COVID-19 and the Anxious Body, Puncta Journal of Critical Phenomenology (2022) LINK
CFC: Routledge Handbook on Nostalgia (co-edited with Tobias Becker) (LINK)
Interview: Zer0 Books Archives: 'The Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror' (LINK)
Book: Atmospheres and Shared Emotions (Routledge, November 2021) LINK
Paper: "“It Happens, But I’m Not There”: On the Phenomenology of Childbirth," Human Nature (2021) LINK
Research website: LINK
New job hire: Leyla Sophie Gleissner who joins as 3 year FWF funded PraeDoc LINK
Paper: "Bachelard and the Sublime Atmosphere of Nostalgia," Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaf (2021) LINK
New major grant: "A phenomenological study of nostalgia" funded by FWF P33428 individual projects, University of Vienna, Institute of Philosophy (2020-2024) LINK
Workshops: Werkstatt Phänomenologie/Phenomenology Workshops at the University of Vienna (2020-2021) LINK
Paper: "The role of atmospheres in shared emotion," Emotion, Space, and Society (Vol. 35, May 2020) LINK
Entry: "Horror," International Lexicon of Aesthetics (May 2020) LINK
New podcast: "Who is the subject of Birth?" w/British Society of Phenomenology (June 2020) LINK