Research Team

Dylan Trigg

Dylan Trigg is an FWF Senior Researcher at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy. He has a background in phenomenology, embodiment, and aesthetics. Trigg is the author of several books including "Topophobia: a Phenomenology of Anxiety" (2016); "The Thing: a Phenomenology of Horror" (2014); and "The Memory of Place: a Phenomenology of the Uncanny" (2012).

For the "A Phenomenology of Nostalgia" project, Trigg will write a book looking at the relation between nostalgia and melancholia. In particular, he will focus on the role nostalgia plays in displacing and disrupting subjectivity. Methodologically, the research employs a phenomenological perspective, which primarily focuses on the late 20th century as source material.

Leyla Sophie Gleissner

Leyla Sophie Gleissner is an FWF Prae-Doc Researcher at the University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy, and a PhD student at the Husserl Archives of École normale supérieure Paris. She has an MA in Philosophy from Free University of Berlin (2019). In addition to her philosophical research, she writes for newspapers and magazines.

For the "A phenomenology of Nostalgia" project, Gleissner will focus on the relation between suffering, temporality and language, linking critical phenomenological and deconstructivist approaches to ethics and intersectional feminist philosophy.