Vernon W. Cisney

"We write only at the frontiers of our knowledge..."

-Gilles Deleuze

Vernon W. Cisney was born and raised in Mattoon, Illinois, USA. He did his undergraduate work at Lake Land College and Eastern Illinois University, before earning a Master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Memphis in 2006, and a doctoral degree from Purdue University in 2012. He is currently Chair and Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, USA. He recently finished a book on the concept of difference in the philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, titled "Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative" (Edinburgh, 2018), as well as two articles on the work of David Foster Wallace and an article on the film "Joker" for a forthcoming volume on Theology and Batman. He is now writing a book on the philosophical arc of Gilles Deleuze, as well as being in the preparatory stages of a monograph on Deleuze and literature.