The Modern Language Association of America has awarded UC Davis graduate student David Wayne Thomas the 32nd annual William Riley Parker Prize for an outstanding article published in a recent issue of PMLA, the association's journal. Thomas is a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the English department. His article, "Gödel's Theorem and Postmodern Theory," appeared in the March 1995 issue of PMLA. The Modern Language Association of America, the largest and one of the oldest (1883) of American learned societies in the field of the humanities with 30,000 members, exists for the purpose of advancing literary and linguistic studies.