dylan trigg

Dylan Trigg is an FWF Senior Researcher at Department of Philosophy, Central European University, Vienna and faculty member of the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy.

He has previously held several positions, including: FWF Senior Research at University of Vienna (2017-2024); 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).

Trigg is currently the PI on an FWF research project, "Parenthood: a Study of Lived Experience," funded by FWF PAT 4547224.

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, medical humanities, and aesthetics.