Tyler M. Williams is assistant professor in the Department of English, Humanities, and Philosophy at Midwestern State University. Recently, he is cotranslator of The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence by Marc Crépon (2018). Currently, he is editor of Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion by Catherine Malabou (forthcoming) while completing a book manuscript on William Faulkner, racial violence, authority, and the antinomies of tradition.