Sharon A. RussellSHARON A. RUSSELL is Professor of Communication and Women's Studies at Indiana State University, where she also teaches film and popular culture courses. She is a former head of the Detective and Mystery Fiction section of the Popular Culture Associaion and a member of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts. She has published many articles on popular fiction and has contributed to several works on detective fiction. She is editor of The Dog Didn't Do It: Animals in Mystery (forthcoming), and A Guide to African Cinema (forthcoming from Greenwood Press). Read More Read Less