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  • Sarah Montague

    Part-Time Associate Professor, Culture and Media; Faculty Advisor, WNSR New School Radio

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    montagus@newschool.edu

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    Sarah Montague

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    Sarah Montague is Part-Time Associate Professor at Eugene Lang College and also teaches at Parsons School of Design.  She is a co-faculty advisor for WNSR, New School Radio.

    Montague is an award-winning veteran radio, audio and podcast producer of drama, documentary and features, whose work (with WNYC, NPR, PRX, and other outlets) includes Audio Maverick, a documentary podcast about the life and times of Golden Age radio producer Himan Brown, and radio and audio theater series including Jazzplay; The Radio Stage; T is for Tom; Spinning Stoppard; and the plays The Fall of the City; Anesthesia and That Deep Ocean.

    At The New School she offers courses in audio theatre; documentary; audio critical theory; and radio/audio production.  She is the producer of the long-running public radio spoken word series SELECTED SHORTS, and of the podcasts Exiles on 12th Street for the New School’s Public Seminar initiative, and Local Switchboard NYC, a which focuses on local news stories from the perspective of women and their neighborhoods.

    She lectures on critical approaches to audio; and has given workshops at CUNY Graduate Center; the Center for Fiction; and New Dramatists.  She has published Continuous Wave, Current, and Irish Studies Review, among other publications.

    She has an MA from Cambridge University.

    Courses

    Eugene Lang College
    Catching the Ear(th): Audio & Climate Change
    Hearing News
    Production and Programming for WNSR, New School Radio
    Public Radio Culture
    Radio/Audio Masterworks
    Radio Documentary
    Radio Drama
    War of the Worlds
    What’s the Story, with Anne Bogart/Ellen Lauren

    Parsons School of Design
    Integrated Seminar Part 1 & 2


    Degrees Held

    BA, MA, Cambridge University


    Professional Affiliation

    • American Women in Media
    • Association of Independents in Radio
    • The Players

    Recent Publications

    Continuous Wave, Current, and Irish Studies Review.


    Performances and Appearances

    She lectures on critical approaches to audio; and has given workshops at CUNY Graduate Center; the Center for Fiction; and New Dramatists. 


    Research Interests

    • History of radio arts
    • Sound art
    • Drama and sound
    • Media and broadcast history

    Portfolio

    CV


    Future Courses

    Integrative Seminar 2
    PUFY 1011, Spring 2026

    On Air: Making a Radio Station
    LCST 3901, Fall 2025

    Public Radio Culture
    LCST 2028, Fall 2025

    Radio/Audio Masterworks
    LCST 3895, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Integrative Seminar 2
    PUFY 1011, Spring 2025

    On Air: Making a Radio Station
    LCST 3901, Spring 2025

    Radio Documentary
    LCST 3527, Fall 2024

    Radio/Audio Masterworks
    LCST 3895, Spring 2025

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