Mark Kligerman is a visiting professor in Screen Arts & Cultures. Mark has taught international cinema classes in Ohio University 's graduate program in World Cinema, as well as courses in non-Western cinema at Illinois State University . Most recently, Mark has lectured in film studies at Northwestern University , where he is completing his dissertation on the intersection of American road movies of the '70s and the gothic imagination. His research interests are broad, and include theories of taste and excess, the history of exploitation films, and Russian cinema of the fantastic. Currently, he is writing an article about contemporary West African road movies and their narrative and visual re-mapping of colonial cartographies.