The Reischauer Institute congratulates Brian Hurley, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, who has been named one of three finalists for the Modern Japan History Association Book Prize, for Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought, published by the Asia Center Publications Program in 2022. He also won honorable mention for the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, "in recognition of an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian or East Asian diaspora literary or linguistic studies." Dr. Hurley's book was commended for "boldly bringing into conversation prominent Japanese writers and thinkers from the 1920s to the 1950s—figures who are too often considered only within their respective disciplinary silos of literary and intellectual history."