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Revision as of 10:09, 5 July 2007
Russell Potter is Professor of English at Rhode Island College. Further information about him may be garnered from his CV.
At the moment, he is taking some time off from major new work on the Citizendium, but he will continue to pop up here and there!
Articles written for CZ from scratch (those that have been approved are in bold on this list)
Literature, Northwest Passage, Crystal Palace, John Franklin, 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. William Butler Yeats, Rufus C. Somerby, Oswald Mosley.
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, History of television, Grandmaster Flash, Minik Wallace, Rhode Island College, Open Polar Sea, Muiris Ó Súilleabháin (wrote WP entry), Providence, Rhode Island, Eugenics, Phonovision (wrote for WP), Steven Millhauser (wrote for WP), James Stephens (author) (wrote for WP), Ella Young (wrote for WP), Moving panorama (wrote for CZ, was ported to WP, have brought back and much expanded), Panoramic painting.
Most recent projects: Moving panorama, Panoramic painting, Scotland Yard.
- I'm also working on some new draft help documentation in my Sandbox
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 and Modern descriptive grammar.
- 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
- 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
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