The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its thirty-second annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Charlie D. Hankin, assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Davis, for his book Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the Americas, published by the University of Virginia Press. 

The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures.

The University of California, Davis, is third in the nation among public universities and 12th among all universities for how well it sets its graduates up for financial success in the WSJ/College Pulse rankings released today (Sept. 5).

The rankings, from The Wall Street Journal and its research partners College Pulse and Statista, consider how much a school improves students’ chances of graduating and their future earnings with results from student and alumni surveys on college life and diversity. The rankings no longer measure reputation or the college’s own finances.

Professor Charlie D. Hankin recently edited a dossier for the Latin American Literary Review, entitled, "Words & Rhythm, Sound & Text."