Authors at Continuous Wave
Sarah Montague
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 and Local Switchboard NYC.
Sonja Williams
Sonja Williams is a professor of communications at Howard University, as well as an award-winning writer and producer of features and documentaries for National Public Radio (NPR), Public Radio International (PRI), the Smithsonian Institution and radio stations nationwide. She has worked as a journalist and media trainer in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. For three consecutive years, Williams received one of the broadcast/cable industry’s most prestigious honors, the George Foster Peabody Award for Significant and Meritorious Achievement. Williams’ book, Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom was published by University of Illinois Press in 2015.
Jason Loviglio
Jason Loviglio is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), USA. He is the author of Radio's Intimate Public (Minnesota, 20050, co-editor of The Routledge Companion of Radio and Podcast Studies (2022) and Radio Journal: Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media (2017-present).
Jeremy Braddock
Jeremy Braddock is a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in the long history of modernism, especially in the United States. He teaches in the department of Literatures in English at Cornell and is the author of Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy Albums (California, 2024) and Collecting as Modernist Practice (Johns Hopkins 2012).
Cynthia Meyers
Cynthia Meyers writes histories of American broadcasting and advertising, including two books, A Word from Our Sponsor: Advertising, Admen, and the Golden Age of Radio, and the forthcoming Sell-e-vision: How the Advertising Industry Shaped American Television, out in spring 2027. Her other writing can be found at profcynthiameyers.com
