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Russell Potter is currently working on the top article for [[Literature]], as well as on related entries for [[The Canterbury Tales]], [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], [[The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Bleak House]], [[The Frozen Deep]], | Russell Potter is currently working on the top article for [[Literature]], as well as on related entries for [[The Canterbury Tales]], [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], [[The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Bleak House]], [[The Frozen Deep]], [[Northwest Passage]], andand [[The Signal-Man]]. He is also the principal author of the current versions of [[Moving panorama]], [[Scotland Yard]], [[Charles Frederick Field]], [[Lilian Wyles]], [[Frederick Porter Wensley]], and [[Television Station Paul Nipkow]]; other articles to which he has contributed include [[John Franklin]], [[Arctic Ocean]], and [[Lucian]]. | ||
He is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. Further information about him may be garnered [http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/rapvita.html here]. | He is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. Further information about him may be garnered [http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/rapvita.html here]. | ||
Revision as of 11:35, 30 April 2007
Russell Potter is currently working on the top article for Literature, as well as on related entries for The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, The Frozen Deep, Northwest Passage, andand The Signal-Man. He is also the principal author of the current versions of Moving panorama, Scotland Yard, Charles Frederick Field, Lilian Wyles, Frederick Porter Wensley, and Television Station Paul Nipkow; other articles to which he has contributed include John Franklin, Arctic Ocean, and Lucian.
He is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. Further information about him may be garnered here.
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)
Victorian visual culture (panoramas, dioramas, lantern shows, optical entertainments)
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)
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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