Finding Jane Austen

Anne Fertig is a literary historian and a passionate public humanist. Known best for her work with the Jane Austen Summer Program, Dr. Fertig founded the webseries Jane Austen & Co. in 2019 to bring Jane Austen’s world to audiences around the globe. Her extensive list of publications and digital projects includes two Apple History Top 100 podcasts, several peer-reviewed articles, and a book, A Song of Glasgow Town: The Collected Works of Marion Bernstein. Dr. Fertig completed her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022 and currently works at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Jeanette Patrick is the Head of R2 Studios and oversees the development and production of all the studio’s podcasts including Finding Jane Austen, Worlds Turned Upside Down, Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History, and Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant. Patrick previously worked in the museum industry where she played a pivotal role in creating digital public history projects. She worked at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, where won a silver Telly Award for a visitor center film she wrote entitled “George Washington and the Pursuit of Religious Freedom.” She also wrote scripts for audio and AR tours, live-action films, and animated videos. With Jim Ambuske, Patrick co-created and co-wrote the podcast Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon which was a finalist for the 2021 People's Choice Podcast Award.

Jim Ambuske is Co-Head of R2 Studios. He is a historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic World. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia in 2016 and he is the author and co-author of several publications on the American Revolution, transatlantic legal history, and King George III. At R2 Studios, Ambuske serves as an executive producer of Finding Jane Austen, Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant, and The Green Tunnel. He researches, writes, and hosts Worlds Turned Upside Down. Before joining R2 Studios, Ambuske led the Center for Digital History at the Washington Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, where he hosted and produced the podcast, Conversations at the Washington Library and with Jeanette Patrick co-created and co-wrote the podcast series, Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. He is also a former Farmer Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Virginia Law Library. At UVA Law Library, Ambuske co-directed the 1828 Catalouge Project and the Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project.