Thomas Hodgson
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Music and Data, Global Music Industry)
Molly Hennig (she/her) is a fourth-year doctoral student of the Department of Musicology at UCLA. She holds a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance and music industry from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh and received her Master of Arts in historical musicology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Molly’s current interests involve humor as music discourse, particularly concerning sound studies in online livestreaming, neurodivergence in gaming and play, and adult perspectives on childhood entertainment. Her research has featured in national and international conferences such as the Neurodivergent Music Network inaugural conference (2026), the European Conference on Video Game Music and Sound (2026, 2024), the North American Conference on Video Game Music (2026, 2024), Game Sound Con (2025), UCLA’s “Theorizing Trauma and Disability in the Arts” (2025), the Transnational Opera Studies Conference (2025), the American Musicological Society annual meeting (2025), and the Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting (2024). Molly’s ongoing project, “Gathering and Listening on Twitch,” received UCLA’s Keck Humanistic Inquiry Fellowship in 2025. Additionally, her presentation on “opera for babies” received the Ingolf Dahl Award from the Spring 2025 AMS Pacific-Southwest Chapter meeting. In 2025-2026, Molly received the Graduate Research Mentorship for her project on neurodivergent listening and video game soundtracks, and in summer 2026, she also received the Graduate Summer Research Mentorship for her project concerning online playthroughs of children’s video games. Alongside her scholarship, Molly performs soprano voice and composes with a focus on contemporary art song and chamber music, her work having premiered most recently at the 2026 event “Firebirth: Kindling the Sounds of Resilience in Los Angeles,” as well as the 2021 Source Song Festival, the 2022 Minneapolis “songSLAM” with Sparks & Wiry Cries, and the 2022 Composer Mentorship Program under the National Association of Teachers of Singing and Cincinnati Song Initiative.
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