Faculty

Profile

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