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The winner of this year's prize is Thomas Haddox's "Unmaking Generations: On Gayl Jones's Corregidora and the Pastness of the Past." The judge is Rebecca L. Walkowitz, professor and chair of English and affiliate faculty in comparative literature at Rutgers University. Past president of the Modernist Studies Association, Walkowitz is the author or editor of ten books, including as author Born Translated: The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature (2015) and Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism beyond the Nation (2006) and as editor, with Eric Hayot, A New Vocabulary for Global Modernism (2016) and, with Douglas Mao, Bad Modernisms (2006). She is now writing a book about the concept of the Anglophone and the representation of world languages in contemporary writing.