New York, NY – 6 December 2016 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its twenty-fourth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies to Hannah Freed-Thall, of Brown University, for her book Spoiled Distinctions: Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism, published by Oxford University Press. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work in its field—a literary or linguistic study, a critical edition of an important work, or a critical biography—written by a member of the association.