Austen Pod Squad

Episode 7 - Sips and Sensibility

[https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6468f5f2ad004869648ceec9/388ceefd-c116-45ac-a997-404e29de379c/DALL%C2%B7E%2BJApodsquad2.webp?format=1000w] In this episode, the Austen Pod Squad takes tea and does a sensory tour of the homes and gardens known to Jane Austen with Kim Wilson, author of the Austen lifestyle books, At Home with Jane Austen, Tea with Jane Austen, and In the Garden with Jane Austen. Just for the Austen Pod Squad listeners, receive the recipes Kim mentions in this podcast. [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6468f5f2ad004869648ceec9/e65f9d34-0b16-4f35-9c02-e931c1d8589d/kimwilson.jpg?format=1000w] Click on the link below to get the link to the recipe PDF including a bonus Regency Fruit Juice Candy recipe: Link: kimwilsonauthor.com/austen-pod-squad-2026-recipes [http://kimwilsonauthor.com/austen-pod-squad-2026-recipes] Meg Huskin composed the intro and exit music used for this and other Austen Pod Squad episodes with her permission for use. Episode 7 -Sips and Sensibility Kim Wilson

Episode 6: Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

In this episode, the Austen Pod Squad chats with author/artist Kate Evans about her graphic biography of Jane Austen which tells the story of Austen in a highly visual way that tells the story of Austen from birth onward against a historical backdrop and themes of colonialism, slavery, and class in a book that is illustrated in a gentle color palette with embroidery and patchwork quilt motifs.

Episode 5: “The Jane Phenomenon” - Juliette Wells

In 2023, Dr. Wells. Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College, completed a "groundbreaking trio" of books published by Bloomsbury Academic [https://beachbooks37.com/search?type=author&q=Wells%2C%20Juliette] that revolutionizes how we understand Austen’s rise to fame. This trilogy includes Everybody’s Jane [https://www.google.com/search?q=Everybody%E2%80%99s+Jane&kgmid=/g/12bmpgnd_&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDlYLZ4OCSAxUTlmoFHRuAA6oQ3egRegYIAQgIEAM], Reading Austen in America [https://www.google.com/search?q=Reading+Austen+in+America&kgmid=/g/11c2kwfdtt&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDlYLZ4OCSAxUTlmoFHRuAA6oQ3egRegYIAQgIEAU] , and A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist [https://www.google.com/search?q=A+New+Jane+Austen:+How+Americans+Brought+Us+the+World%E2%80%99s+Greatest+Novelist&kgmid=/g/11ss4hz_6h&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDlYLZ4OCSAxUTlmoFHRuAA6oQ3egRegYIAQgIEAg]. Beyond her own writing, she is the editor behind the Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, Persuasion and Mansfield Park—specifically designed to be "reader-friendly" for a new generation. In 2025, she co-curated  the major 250th-anniversary exhibition, A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 [https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/lively-mind-jane-austen-250], at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. In this lively podcast, the Austen Pod Squad, co-hosts, Marcia Johnson, Sherry Lockwood, and Jen Mulsow explore collecting, curating, teaching, and student experience in reading Jane Austen in America with Dr. Wells who shares her deep research and vast Austen knowledge with our listeners.

Episode 4: “My Dearest Jane” — Meg Huskin, Opera and Jane Austen

Meg plays musical excerpts from her performance of My Dearest Jane.

Episode 2 - “WILD FOR AUSTEN:” Jane, Genius, and Going Off Script with Devoney Looser 9/23/2025

Austen Pod Squad, the podcast of JASNA Virtual Region for All Things Austen with hosts Marcia Johnson, Sherry Lockwood, and Jen Mulsow who welcome acclaimed Austen scholar and author of her latest book, Devoney Looser to the podcast to talk about Devoney’s much anticipated Wild for Austen: The True Story of a Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane Austen. The book goes far beyond the mild image and into the wild world that Austen really inhabited. Austen Pod Squad Episode 2: Wild for Austen Devoney Looser [https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6468f5f2ad004869648ceec9/b51be282-28a6-4aae-a34f-53545c5bb8d6/wildforausten.jpg?format=1000w]