<p>I think they selected her as the resident musicologist - Orpheus and etc., but also the underground returns to terra firma (Commendatore in Don Giovanni, etc.) Also, her Italian skills make her rather adept around Dante and such. (She also knows much about the impacts of underground earthquakes, e.g. tsunamis, firsthand, though I don’t think that was in her application. It was amazing, though, how, by chance, she took a geology course focused on natural disasters her very first term in school, and immediately got to put it to use.)</p>