The Thing About Austen is an peer-informed academic podcast about Jane Austen's world, produced by faculty in the English Department at Utah Valley University. Come for the historical context and stay for the literary shenanigans — we are your somewhat cheeky tour guides to the life and times of Jane Austen, with scholarly citations to back it up.
Each monthly episode explores the life, literature, and cultural world of Jane Austen, combining scholarly analysis with accessible public humanities engagement. Episodes are grounded in current literary scholarship and draw on historical context, textual criticism, and cultural history. This Zenodo community archives individual episode records as non-traditional research outputs (NTROs), including transcripts, show notes, and bibliographic references, in support of open academic scholarship on Austen studies. All deposits are assigned DOIs and linked to contributors' ORCID profiles.