Russell A. Potter (born 1960) is an American writer and college professor, and guitarist.[1] His work encompasses hip hop culture, popular music, and the history of British exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century,[2] as well as the material in the courses he teaches in English literature at Rhode Island College.
His books include Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism (1995) and Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875 (2007), as well as a novel, Pyg: The Memoirs of a Learned Pig (2011). He teaches at Rhode Island College, where he is editor of the Arctic Book Review. He also worked as a consultant on, and appears in, the Nova documentary Arctic Passage (2006). In 2021, Potter's albums were reissued on vinyl LPs.[1]
He is a professor at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island. He has developed courses in English on several topics, including literature in Victorian England. He has posted material on that era, about an early detective and his representation in Bleak House, a novel by Charles Dickens.[3]
Booksedit
Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-hop and the Politics of Postmodernism, SUNY Press 1995 (ISBN0791426262)
Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875, University of Washington Press 2007 (ISBN0295986808)
Pyg: The Memoirs of a Learned Pig, Canongate Books 2011 (ISBN0857862405)
Finding Franklin: The Untold Story of a 165-Year Search, McGiill-Queen's University Press 2016 (ISBN9780773547841)
Referencesedit
^ abRugoff, Lazlo (June 4, 2021). "Russell Potter's solo guitar compositions reissued on Tompkins Square". The Vinyl Factory.
^James, David (September 18, 2019). "Leading authorities on ill-fated Franklin Expedition will present at Anchorage Museum this week". Anchorage Daily News.
^Potter, Russell A. "Victorian Popular Culture: Inspector Charles Frederick Field". Providence, Rhode Island. Retrieved June 27, 2022.
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