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Autumn Womack is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at Princeton University, affiliated with the Behrman Faculty Fellows. Her research focuses on late 19th- and early 20th-century African American literary culture, intersecting literature with visual technologies, archival practice, and data regimes. She teaches courses on African American literature, race, and media history, utilizing archival resources such as the Toni Morrison Papers.
Her work includes The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930 (2022), awarded the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize, and co-edited Charles Chesnutt’s Marrow of Tradition (2023). She curates archival exhibitions like Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory (2023) and is completing a book on Morrison’s creative process (The Wanderer, Knopf, 2025). Her research appears in journals like Black Camera, American Literary History, and Women and Performance.
Her accolades include recognition for her first book and ongoing contributions to modernist studies. Collaborations include a co-authored volume on Toni Morrison and Black archival practice with Kinohi Nishikawa. Womack’s work bridges literary analysis, archival recovery, and critical engagements with race and media.
