Princeton University

Mark Ilsemann
311 Parkway, Charlottesville, VA 22902

Mark is currently working on a dissertation entitled A Wilderness of Meaning: Text and Space Around 1800 under the direction of Professor Stanley Corngold. Born in the city of Hamburg, where he studied German literature and philosophy, he later moved to Berlin and spent a memorable year in the German department at Johns Hopkins University. After deciding to stay in the US, he made Princeton his home for several years, first as a graduate student, German language instructor, and preceptor, and later as a lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program. He currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his fiancee, who teaches French literature at the University of Virginia.

Education

• Since fall 1998
  Ph.D. candidate, German, Princeton University
• January 2000
  M.A., German, Princeton University
• 1997-1998
  Postgraduate studies (exchange student), German, Johns Hopkins University
• 1997
  Intermediate exams (B.A. equivalent), German, Philosophy, and Comparative Literature, Free University of Berlin
• 1992-1997
  Undergraduate studies, German and Philosophy, Hamburg University and Free University of Berlin

Courses Taught

Princeton University

• Fall 2003-spring 2004
  Lecturer (Quin Morton Writing Fellow), Princeton Writing Program
  WRI 173: Technology and the Limits of the Human 
• Fall 2001
  Teaching assistant to Professor Thomas Y. Levin, Department of German 
  GER 306: Rhetorics of Surveillance
• Fall 1999-spring 2001
  Instructor, Department of German
  GER 107: Advanced German Language
  GER 105: Intermediate German Language
  GER 102: Beginner's German Language
  GER 101: Beginner's German Language
  

Honors, Fellowships, and Scholarships

• Princeton University Graduate School Summer Support, summer 2003
• Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship for Research Abroad in the Humanities, 2002-2003
• Princeton University Graduate School Summer Support, summer 2002
• Mellon Summer Grant, Princeton University, summer 1999
• Princeton University Graduate Student Fellowship, 1998-2002
• Berlin Consortium Fellowship for Study in the US, 1997-1998

Invited Lectures, Conference Papers, and Presentations

• "Reveries of the Solitary Reader: Reading as Intimacy in Rousseau and Schelling," annual convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), Las Vegas, April 2005 (upcoming)
• "Going Astray: Melancholy and Disorientation in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz," conference "W.G. Sebald: Works and Influences. The Third Occasional Davidson Symposium on German Studies," Davidson College, March 2003
• "'We are Watching!': The Temporalities of Trauma and Surveillance," conference "Sites of Engagement: The State of the Public Sphere in an Age of Globalization," Rutgers University, February 2002