User:Russell Potter

Russell A. Potter

Articles currently being edited/written include Sir John Franklin (largely rewritten and expanded), Geoffrey Chaucer (revised and corrected biography), The Frozen Deep (competely new, extensive article). Minik Wallace, Television Station Paul Nipkow (revised, corrected and adapted from the German Wikipedia), and John Logie Baird (revised and expanded).

Professor of English at Rhode Island College. Ph.D., English, Brown University; M.A., English, Syracuse University; B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, The Evergreen State College.

Areas of alleged expertise include the history of Arctic Exploration, Victorian literature and culture, Panoramas and Dioramas, Chaucer, the early history of mechanical television in Britain, and hip-hop music and culture.

Books written:

Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism (SUNY Press, 1995); Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1880 (University of Washington Press, 2007).

Books Contributed to:

The Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture: African-American Culture (Gale, 1996); The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock (CUP, 2004); The Encyclopedia of the Arctic (Routledge, 2005).

I also serve as the editor of The Arctic Book Review.

Professional homepage: http://www.ric.edu/rpotter Complete Curriculum Vitæ: http://www.ric.edu/rpotter/rapvita.html