RoseE Hadden

RoseE Hadden is a first-year PhD student in the Department of History at North Dakota State University and a full-time employee of the Account Service Center, supporting the School of Humanities, English Department, School of Education, Communication Department, and Division of Performing Arts. She holds a master’s degree in Victorian literature from Brigham Young University. She is focused on the borderland between non-fiction history and historical fiction, exploring how people learn about and interpret their history through creative storytelling, and the creative leaps historians take to connect with their long-dead subjects.

She is a Minnesotan by birth but has lived in Virginia, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Utah, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Oklahoma for one ten-day stint that’s better left forgotten. She enjoys canoes and kayaks, pole dancing, museums about anything except airplanes, fiber craft, and the ray-petting tank at any aquarium where she is left unsupervised for more than ten minutes. She competently speaks French and Korean and has taught French at Concordia Language Villages for over twenty years. She is pursuing a PhD entirely for her own amusement. She just enjoys being in an environment where learning an absurd amount about some obscure topic, and then unleashing that knowledge on unsuspecting passerby, is considered laudable behavior.