Jessica Copley has won this year’s ACLA Charles Bernheimer prize

Jessica Copley has won this year’s ACLA Charles Bernheimer prize for best dissertation in Comparative Literature. This is a wonderful honour for Jessica as well as for her supervisor, Eric Cazdyn, and all who have worked with her. Her dissertation, “Forms of War: Capitalism, Representation and the State of Post-45 Literatures from France, Japan and the United States,” was described by the selection committee as “brilliant,” and a timely “subtle work of literary analysis and an exemplary instance of political criticism”.