Tyler M. Williams, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Interim Chair, English, Humanitites and Philosophy
Education
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo (2016)
M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo (2011)
B.A., DePaul University (2008)
About
In 2020, Dr. Williams won MSU Texas’s inaugural Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Award for Scholarship. In 2025, he won the Prothro-Yeager College of Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He is editor of Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion by philosopher Catherine Malabou (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), and editor/translator of a second volume of Malabou’s writings, Formations (Fordham University Press, 2026).>. Williams is co-translator of The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence (SUNY Press, 2018) and The Trial of Hatred: An Essay on the Refusal of Violence (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), both by philosopher Marc Crépon.
His articles, translations, and reviews have appeared in such journals as diacritics, CR: The New Centennial Review, Epoché, philoSOPHIA, Critical Inquiry, Política Común, boundary2, College Literature, and theory@buffalo.
Research Areas
Continental Philosophy, American and European Literary Modernism