New York, NY – 1 December 2015– The Modern Language Association of America today announced the winner of its fifty-second annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in PMLA, the association’s journal of literary scholarship. The author of this year’s winning essay is Gordon Fraser, of the University of Connecticut, Storrs. His article “Troubling the Cold War Logic of Annihilation: Apocalyptic Temporalities in Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” appeared in the May 2015 issue of PMLA.