Classics

Trigg Settle joined the Classics Department at Brown in 2012, after receiving an MA in Comparative Literature and Classics from The University of New Mexico. He specializes in Ancient Greek poetry, and his research focuses on the use of dramatic texts as literary and historical documents, their use as living scripts for theatrical performances, and inherent tensions in these different applications in the tragic tradition. Trigg’s thesis, “Trauma and The Interpretation of Tragedy,” under the direction of Johanna Hanink, explores the similarities between patterns of traumatic experience and the representation of violence in ancient Greek Tragedy, with a focus on the dynamics of witnessing and testimony that encompass discourses of trauma and its complex temporality, and how the ancient theater is uniquely suited to convey the elusive emotional impact of the types of extreme experiences commonly associated with both trauma and tragedy.