Autumn Hall is an MA candidate in English Literature with a Concentration in Teaching Literature and Writing. Her research examines the intersection of gender, satire, and editorial practice in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British and transatlantic literature, with particular attention to Elizabeth Inchbald, Maria Edgeworth, Frances Burney, and Charlotte Lennox. Her current work reconstructs the Inchbald–Edgeworth correspondence, examining how feminized editorial labor shaped women’s literary production and influence. Her articles “Uncovering Maria Edgeworth’s Strategic Political Influence Through Her Unpublished Letters” and “Women on Wikipedia: Theory and Praxis” have been published by Pursuit and the National Humanities Center, respectively, and her creative work has been featured in Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine. At UVA, she works as a Research Assistant on Professor Alison Booth’s Collective Biographies of Women, leads the "Rise of the Novel" Kohler Seminar, and is cofounder and president of the Digital Humanities Student Association. She is committed to promoting interdisciplinary, accessible scholarship and editorial practice in the humanities.
 

Education: 

2025. BA, Honors English Literature and Creative Writing | Political Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
 

Honors and Awards: 

2025. Award of Excellence for “Editing Gender: Discussions of Satire and Propriety in the Letters and Novels of Elizabeth Inchbald and Maria Edgeworth”, Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 

2025. Outstanding Research Award, Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

2025. Volunteer of Distinction (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 

2025. Undergraduate Research and Fellowships Competitive Travel Grant 

2024. Award of Excellence for “Uncovering Maria Edgeworth’s Strategic Political Influence Through Her Unpublished Letters”, Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 

2024. Outstanding Research Award, Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 
 

Selected Talks:

2026 (forthcoming). "Correction as Care: Women’s Editorial Labor in the Inchbald–Edgeworth Correspondence." Presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (session: Remembering the Ladies: Writing New Histories of Creative Women) 

2025 (forthcoming). “‘Fight Like Men’: Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and the Hydro-Legal Boundaries of the Atlantic in Captain Charles Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates.” Presented at Georgetown University’s English Graduate Student Association Conference (session: Queerness)

2025. "Uncovering Maria Edgeworth's Strategic Political Influence Through Her Unpublished Letters." Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (session: Rhetoric of Politics)
 

Professional Memberships: 

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 

Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society