John Protevi es Phyllis M Taylor Professor en Estudios Franceses y Filosofía en Louisiana State University. Dentro de sus libros se incluyen Life, War, Earth: Deleuze and the Sciences (Minnesota, 2013); Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic (Minnesota, 2009); Political Physics: Deleuze, Derrida, and the Body Politic (Athlone, 2001); Time and Exteriority: Aristotle, Heidegger, Derrida (Bucknell, 1994); y co-autor, con Mark Bonta, de Deleuze and Geophilosophy (Edinburgh, 2004). He is also the editor of A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Yale, 2006). También es editor de A Dictionary of Continental Philosophy (Yale, 2006). Fue Scots Philosophical Association Centenary Fellow el año 2012.