Markus Stock

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PhD

Principal, University College; Vice-Dean, College Relations; Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature & Centre for Medieval Studies (On Leave)

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UC 165
University College, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
Campus: St. George

Markus Stock teaches German languages, literatures, and cultures of the Middle Ages. He is cross-appointed to the Centre for Medieval Studies, where he teaches courses on medieval German romance and heroic epic, philological methodologies, and Old Saxon.

Markus Stock supervises MA and PhD students specializing in medieval and early modern (pre-1600) German literature and culture. He currently accepts supervisions of individuals who wish to specialize in these areas in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures or the Centre for Medieval Studies. Potential applicants are invited to send informal email inquiries to him.

Markus Stock’s SSHRC-funded research and his teaching are situated in medieval German literatures, manuscript studies, and digital philology. He also directs the international research project Medieval Undergrounds, funded by SSHRC. He has authored, edited, or co-edited over a dozen books and special journal issues, including, most recently, as editor of Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch (2023) and as co-editor of the journal issues Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2022), Practices of Commentary (2020, both with Christina Lechtermann), Digital Curation (2021, with Carrie Smith), and Indigenous and German Studies (2019, with Renae Watchman and Carrie Smith). His digital edition of the works of thirteenth-century poet Burkhard von Hohenfels was published in 2020. Professor Stock held visiting professorships at the University of Freiburg and Harvard University. He also was an Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the Universities of Porto and Palermo, a Senior Research Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, and co-editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (2017–2022). He served as President of German Studies Canada from 2021–23.

Education

• PhD, University of Göttingen

Publications

Books edited or co-edited, special journal issues co-edited

• Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023 (398pp.).
• Christina Lechtermann and Markus Stock (Eds.): Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Special journal issue of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary 12 (2022) (198 pp.).
• Carrie Smith and Markus Stock (Eds.): Digital Curation. Special Issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies3 (2021), pp. 187–333 (147 pp.)

Articles

1. “Belagerte Städte, ferne Ziele und die transient-periphere Logik in mittelhochdeutschen Alexanderromanen (Pfaffe Lamprecht, Ulrich von Etzenbach),” Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik (accepted, forthcoming 2023), pp. 549–559. (“City Sieges, Distant Destinations, and the Transient-Peripheral Logic of Middle High German Romances on Alexander the Great (Pfaffe Lamprecht, Ulrich von Etzenbach”)
2. “Responsionen. Zu Konrads von Würzburg Erzählkunst in Heinrich von Kempten,” Beiträge zur mediävistischen Erzählforschung, special issue 10 (2021), pp. 245–260. (Echoes: The Art of Narration in Konrad von Würzburg’s Heinrich von Kempten.)
3. with Renae Watchman and Carrie Smith: “Building Transdisciplinary Relationships: Indigenous and German Studies,” in: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies4 (2019), pp. 309-327.

Book chapters

1. “Christus der Fiedler: Interdiskursive Verschränkungen im Günterstaler Antiphonar und in Christus und die minnende Seele,” in Vielfalt des Religiösen. Mittelalterliche Literatur im postsäkularen Kontext, ed. Susanne Bernhardt and Bent Gebert. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 211–235 (“Christ the Fiddler: Interdiscursive Crossovers in the Günterstal Antiphonary and in Christ and the Loving Soul,” in Religious Multiplicity: Medieval Literature in a Postsecular Context).
2. with Christina Lechtermann: “Virtuelle Textkonstitutionen: die Philologie und ihre mittelalterlichen Objekte,” in Virtuelle Lebenswelten, ed. Stefan Rieger et al., Berlin und Boston: de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 63–85 (“Virtual Text Constitutions: Philology and its Medieval Objects,” in Virtual Life Worlds.)
3. “Cunneware de Lalant and her Brothers: The Other Family in Wolfram’s Parzival,” in diz vliegende bîspel: Ambiguity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Marian E. Polhill and Alexander Sager (Transatlantic Studies). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2020, pp. 39–52.