Marylin Mell, Ph.D., coordinator of the Department of English at Dillard University in New Orleans, teaches film, poetry, novel, essay, literary criticism, and literature of major authors, currently is working on a film theory book entitled, Caught: Queens, Cinema, and the Loss of the Dialectic, a work reviewing over 250 films and exploring how the majority of films focused on queens tends to represent them as transfixed by romance rather than empowered by their political status. She also is completing a novel, Twisted Branches, a work set in New Orleans focusing on how modern families are still haunted by the unresolved burdens of their ancestors. Her recent courses have focused on focused on the poetry, plays, and essays of William Butler Yeats, Shakespeare, Critical Theory, and a film course on the Representation of Women in the Media or, more precisely, The Woman Tricked.