User:Russell Potter

Russell Potter is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. Further information about him may be garnered here.

Articles written for CZ from scratch (those that have been approved are in bold)

Literature, Northwest Passage, The Frozen Deep, Scotland Yard, Frederick Porter Wensley, Lilian Wyles, Thomas Henry Cocroft, Henry Morley, Annie Smith Peck, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. Hip-hop, KRS-One, Gospel of Thomas, Irish language, Cleveland, Ohio.

Articles brought in from Wikipedia and much modified

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, The Signal-Man, Lucian, Charles Frederick Field (wrote for WP), John Franklin, Garrett Morgan, John Logie Baird, Grandmaster Flash, Minik Wallace, Rhode Island College, Open Polar Sea, Muiris Ó Súilleabháin (wrote WP entry), Providence, Rhode Island.

His current project is the entry for Northwest Passage, which has been nominated for Approval.

Specialties

• Arctic History and Exploration in the Nineteenth Century (2007 book, Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1820-1865, University of Washington Press ISBN 0295986794).

• Victorian visual culture (panoramas, dioramas, lantern shows, optical entertainments); see book above.

• Chaucer (my original Ph.D. thesis was on Chaucer and reception theory)

• History of the English Language

• Modern media and Film Studies (I teach in the graduate Media Studies program at my college)

• Hip-hop Music and Culture (1995 book, Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-hop and the Politics of Postmodernism, SUNY Press ISBN 0791426262)

Interests

(I wouldn't claim expertise in these, just persistent amateur interest!)

• History of Scotland Yard and the Metropolitan Police

• John Logie Baird and early Electromechanical Television in the UK, 1924-1939

• Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

• J.R.R. Tolkien

• Ursula K. LeGuin

Memberships

• International Panorama Council, the Hague

• Northeastern Victorian Studies Association (NEVSA)

• Phi Beta Kappa

Degrees

Ph.D., English, Brown University, 1991

M.A., English, Syracuse University, 1987

B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, The Evergreen State College, 1983

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