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, Baron Munchausen, Bucephalus.

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, Eugenics, Steven Millhauser (wrote for WP), James Stephens (author) (wrote for WP), Ella Young (wrote for WP).

Current project: Crystal Palace

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); popular music generally (Contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock, ed. Simon Frith, William Straw, and John Street. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001 ISBN 0521556600).

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

History of Cleveland, Ohio

History of Providence, Rhode Island

London (UK) transport history

The Crystal Palace

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

Workgroup Notes

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