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).
In 1979, he founded the Black Snake record label, on which he released two albums of his own solo guitar compositions, as well as a 45 rpm single of a bluegrass version of Devo's "Mongoloid" by the Hotfoot Quartet.
He has posted material on that era, about an early detective and his representation in Bleak House, a novel by Charles Dickens.