Markus Stock

Principal, University College
Vice-Dean, College Relations, Faculty of Arts and Science
Professor of German and Medieval Studies

Contact info

markus.stock@utoronto.ca

Office
University College
15 King’s College Circle, Room 165
Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
CANADA

Tel. 416-978-7516

Office Hours

Mondays 4:15-5:45pm, UC 165,
and by appointment:
Please contact uc.principal@utoronto.ca

Classes 2023-24

GER 426/GER1200 Introduction to Medieval German Language and Literature, Fall Term, Mondays 2-4pm, UC 177

Background

Dr. phil. University of Göttingen, 2000

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.

Recent Publications (2018 – present):

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

  1. Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023 (398pp.).
  2. 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.).
  3. Carrie Smith and Markus Stock (Eds.): Digital Curation. Special Issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies3 (2021), pp. 187–333 (147 pp.).
  4. Christina Lechtermann and Markus Stock (Eds.): Practices of Commentary. Special issue of Zeitsprünge. Studies in Early Modern History, Culture and Science1-2 (2020), pp. 1-270 (270 pp.).
  5. Renae Watchman, Carrie Smith, and Markus Stock (Eds.): Building Transdisciplinary Relationships: Indigenous and German Studies. Special issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies4 (2019), pp. 309-427 (118 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.
  4. “Zwei Männer. Erzählmuster, >Kurzschluss< und Optionalität in mittelhochdeutschen Brautwerbungserzählungen,” Beiträge zur mediävistischen Erzählforschung, special issue 3 (2019), pp. 51-78. (“Two Men. Narrative Pattern, >Short Circuit<, and Optionality in Middle High German Bridal Quest Narratives”)
  5. wilde, wilder muot, wildekeit: Bildgebende Verfahren und wilde-Metaphorik im Minnesang,” Wolfram-Studien 25 (2018), pp. 343-373. (“Wild, Wild Thoughts, Wildness: Processes of Imaging and the Imagery of wilde in Minnesang.”)

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.
  4. with Christina Lechtermann: “Virtuelle Philologie,” in Handbuch Virtualität, ed. Dawid Kasprowicz and Stefan Rieger, Berlin: Springer, 2019, pp. 425–454. (“Virtual Philology,” in Handbook Virtuality.)

Reviews, smaller articles, and non-refereed online publications

  1. Review of Simone Leidinger, Dietmar von Aist: Vielschichtige Poetik. Studien zu einer literarhistorischen und forschungsgeschichtlichen Standortbestimmung. Heidelberg: Winter, 2019; Anna Sara Lahr, Diversität als Potential. Eine Neuperspektivierung des frühesten Minnesangs. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, accepted, forthcoming 2024.
  2. Review of Falk Quenstedt, Mirabiles Wissen. Deutschsprachige Reiserzählungen um 1200 im transkulturellen Kontext arabischer Literatur. Straßburger Alexander, Herzog Ernst, Reise-Fassung des Brandan. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021, Germanistik, accepted, forthcoming 2024.
  3. “Konrad von Würzburg: Leben, Kontakte, Werk,” in: Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch, ed. Markus Stock. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2023, pp. 3–17. (“Konrad von Würzburg: Life, Contacts, Works,” in Konrad von Würzburg: A Handbook)
  4. with Walker Horsfall: “Die Klage der Kunst,” in: Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch, ed. Markus Stock. Berlin and Boston, 2023, pp. 108-117. (The Lament of Art,” in Konrad von Würzburg: A Handbook)
  5. with Walker Horsfall: “Konrad von Würzburg – A Bibliography. Second edition,” online https://hdl.handle.net/1807/127259 (April 2023), 90 pp.
  6. with Christina Lechtermann: “Introduction: Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” Glossator 12 (2022), pp. 1–10.
  7. with Carrie Smith: “Introduction: Digital Curation in German Studies,” Seminar 3 (2021), pp. 187–192.
  8. “Burkhard von Hohenfels und Gottfried von Neifen,” in: Handbuch Minnesang, ed. Beate Kellner et al., Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 722–
  9. Review of: Literarische Orte in deutschsprachigen Erzählungen des Mittelalters. Ein Handbuch, ed. Tilo Renz et al., Germanistik 61 (2020), p. 924.
  10. with Christina Lechtermann: “Introduction,” Zeitsprünge 1-2 (2020), pp. 1–6.

Recent and upcoming talks:

  1. undern stein. Die Grotte als Zuflucht in mittelhochdeutschen Erzähltexten.” IVG-Kongress, Universität Graz, August 2025 (accepted).
  2. “Medieval Undergrounds: Exterranean and Interranean Entanglements,” International Symposium Medieval Undergrounds, University of Toronto, 5 May 2024 (accepted).
  3. “Vom Lied zur Handschrift. Dietmar von Aist, Burkhard von Hohenfels und Kunze von Rosenheim,” Universität Bayreuth, 7 June 2023.