UK English Professor’s ‘Aesthetic Cold War’ Wins 2023 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize
By Richard LeComte
LEXINGTON, Ky. — “The Aesthetic Cold War,” a book by the University of Kentucky’s Peter Kalliney, has won the 2023 Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. Kalliney is the William J. and Nina B. Tuggle Chair in English in UK’s College of Arts and Sciences.
Each year, a panel of Modernist Studies Association judges awards the prize to a book that has made the most significant contribution to modernist studies.
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