Submitted by Kirk L. Van Scoyoc
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Professor Ted Mack (Japanese literature) has won the first-ever Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies for his book Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism from the Modern Language Association (MLA). The prize honors an outstanding scholarly work in the field of East Asian or East Asian diaspora literary or linguistic studies, and is the first major MLA award for a book on East Asian literature.
Learn more about the award and about Professor Mack's book through the MLA's official award citation [PDF]. The award was also featured in the College of Arts & Sciences' March 2024 Perspectives newsletter.
Congratulations, Professor Mack!