Molly Hennig

Molly Hennig is a fourth-year doctoral student of the Department of Musicology at UCLA. Molly’s current interests involve humor as musical discourse, particularly concerning sound studies in online live-streaming, narratives of neurodivergent listening, and reactions to childhood entertainment. Her ongoing project, “Gathering and Listening on Twitch,” received the Keck Humanistic Inquiry Fellowship, and her presentation on “opera for babies” received the Ingolf Dahl Award from the AMS Pacific-Southwest Chapter. She received the Graduate Student Research Mentorship for her project on neurodivergent perspectives on video game soundtracks, and currently works under the Graduate Student Summer Research Mentorship to study online adult audiences for children’s video games. Having served as an instructor for Writing II courses such as “Writing About Music” at UCLA, Molly is passionate about teaching writing as a site of critical self-reflection and relational listening.