Avery Faust is a PhD student in musicology at the University of Pittsburgh. Avery earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music from Elizabethtown College and her Masters of Music in musicology from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins. Her master’s thesis, titled “Hope and Sound in The Hunger Games” explored themes of control through the soundscapes and the ideas of hope in protest through the Appalachian folk songs that are found in both The Hunger Games novels and movies. Avery’s current research interests include American art song, music and hope, and music in media.