Dylan Trigg is an associate tutor at the University of Sussex. Dr. Trigg earned his doctoral degree at the same university, submitting a thesis on memory and place. He has published on space and place, continental philosophy, and aesthetics. His interests includes: the philosophy of architecture (in particular the phenomenology of space and place, place and memory, and the aesthetics of urban ruins); phenomenology (in particular Bachelard, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Heidegger); and the ethical and epistemological limits of representing trauma.

Trigg is the author of The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia and the Absence of Reason (New York: Peter Lang, 2006) He has been a visiting scholar at Duquesne University, USA and a guest lecturer at the University of Montana, USA.