Ross Hagen
Adjunct Instructor, History

ross.hagen@gmail.com



Ross Hagen is a lecturer at Utah Valley University and has taught courses in Western music history, American music,
and rock music. He studied music at Davidson College and received his M.M. and Ph.D. in Musicology at the
University of Colorado - Boulder. His dissertation compares modes of participatory fan activity in the Denver noise
music scene and in rock fan fiction to deconstruct codes of authenticity and ideology within popular music fandom. He
is also active as an electro-acoustic music composer and bassist.