Markus Stock

Before joining the University of Toronto in 2005, I taught medieval German language and literature at the University of Göttingen. I held visiting professorships at the University of Freiburg (2008) and at Harvard University (2009) as well as a senior research fellowship at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies (2012). I am also the Book Review Editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies. I hold a SSHRC Standard Research Grant for a project entitled "Spatial Practices in German Literature 1150-1300," and serve as lead organizer of the 2012-13 Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group "Sacrality and Space" and of the JHI Lecture Series "Tasting Histories."

My teaching interests include Middle High German, language history, as well as high medieval epic and poetry. I enjoy teaching courses that show both the alterity and the continuity of premodern concepts like love, or the self. I also take great pleasure in discovering together with my students how the historical development of German determines the language as it is today. One of my additional teaching interests is German poetry from its beginnings to the present day as well as literary and cultural theory. I am cross-appointed to the Centre for Medieval Studies, where I teach courses on medieval German romance and heroic epic, philological methodology, and Old Saxon.

My area of research specialization is medieval and early modern German literature, language, and culture. I have published on high medieval German epic, romance, and Minnesang. My other interests include historical narratology, the history of pain as well as medieval and early modern texts on Alexander the Great.

Books

with Hans Jochen Schiewer and Stefan Seeber (Eds.): Schmerz in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2010 (243 pp.) (Pain in Medieval and Early Modern Literature).

with Arthur Groos and Hans Jochen Schiewer (Eds.): Topographies of the Early Modern City. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2008 (257 pp.).

with Klaus Grubmüller (Eds.): Geld im Mittelalter. Wahrnehmung – Bewertung – Symbolik. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005 (246 pp.) (Money in the Middle Ages: Perception – Evaluation – Symbolic).

with Klaus Grubmüller (Eds.): Automaten in Kunst und Literatur des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2003 (272 pp.) (Automata in Medieval and Early Modern Art and Literature).

Kombinationssinn. Narrative Strukturexperimente im ‘Straßburger Alexander’, im ‘Herzog Ernst B’ und im ‘König Rother’. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2002 (MTU 123) (VIII, 335 pp.) (A Sense of Combination: Experiments with Narrative Structure in the ‘Strassburg Alexander’, in ‘Herzog Ernst B’, and in ‘König Rother’).

Frühneuhochdeutsches Glossenwörterbuch. Index zum deutschen Wortgut des ‘Vocabularius Ex quo’. On the basis of the work of Erltraud Auer et al. with Markus Stock ed. Klaus Grubmüller. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2001 (889 pp.) (Dictionary of Early New High German Glosses: Index to the German Vocabulary of the ‘Vocabularius Ex quo’)

Articles and Book Chapters

"Figur. Zu einem Kernproblem historischer Narratologie," in: Historische Narratologie: Mediävistische Perspektiven, ed. Harald Haferland and Matthias Meyer, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2010 (Trends in Medieval Philology 19) , pp. 187-203 . ("Character: On a Core Issue of Historical Narratology," in: Historical Narratology: Medievalist Perspectives.)

with Johanna Rodda: "Wissen söllen alle säligen : A Manuscript of the Hoheliedauslegung >Meliora Sunt Ubera Tua Vino< at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, " Oxford German Studies 39 (2010), pp. 1-15.

with Stefan Seeber: "Schmerz. Bemerkungen zu einem schwierigen Feld," in: Schmerz in der Literatur des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, ed. Hans Jochen Schiewer, Stefan Seeber, and Markus Stock, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2010 (Transatlantic Studies 4), pp. 9-20. ("Pain: Remarks on a Difficult Field", in: Pain in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.)

with John Noyes: "German Studies: Disziplinäre Neuerfindung und kritische Lesefähigkeit", Mitteilungen des deutschen Germanistenverbands 57,3 (2010), pp. 326-332. ("German Studies: Disciplinary Reinvention and Critical Literacy")

"Das Zelt als Zeichen und Handlungsraum in der hochhöfischen deutschen Epik. Mit einer Studie zu Isenharts Zelt in Wolframs 'Parzival'," in: Innenräume in der Literatur des deutschen Mittelalters, ed. Burkhard Hasebrink et al. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2008, pp. 67-85. ("Tents as Signs and Places in German Courtly Romance. With a Study on Isenhart's Tent in Wolfram's 'Parzival'," in: Interior Spaces in Medieval German Literature.)

"Diachronic Topography. The Old High German Inscriptions for the Entry of Prince Philip of Spain into Ghent (1549)," in: Topographies of the Early Modern City, ed. Arthur Groos, Hans-Jochen Schiewer, and Markus Stock, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2008 (Transatlantic Studies 3), pp. 139-160.

"Lähelin. Zu Figurenentwurf und Sinnkonstitution in Wolframs 'Parzival'," Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 129 (2007), pp. 18-37. ("Lähelin: On Character Depiction and the Production of Meaning in Wolfram's 'Parzival'")

"In den muot gebildet. Das innere Bild als poetologische Metapher bei Burkhart von Hohenfels," in: Im Wortfeld des Textes. Worthistorische Beiträge zu den Bezeichnungen von Rede und Schrift im Mittelalter, ed. Gerd Dicke, Manfred Eikelmann, and Burkhard Hasebrink. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2006 (Trends in Medieval Philology 10), pp. 211-230. ("In den muot gebildet. The inner image as poetological metaphor in Burkhart's von Hohenfels works," in: In the Semantic Field of the Text. Contributions on the Terms for Speaking and Writing in the Middle Ages)

"Von der Vergeltung zur Münze. Zur mittelalterlichen Vorgeschichte des Wortes Geld," in: Geld im Mittelalter. Wahrnehmung - Bewertung - Symbolik, ed. Klaus Grubmüller and Markus Stock. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2005, pp. 34-51. ("From Retribution to Coin: On the Medieval Prehistory of the Word Geld," in: Money in the Middle Ages: Perception - Evaluation - Symbolic)

"Effekte des Authentischen? Selbstentwurf und Referenz in der Autobiographie Johanns von Soest (1504/05)," in: Texttyp und Textproduktion in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters, ed. Elisabeth Andersen, Manfred Eikelmann and Anne Simon. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2005, pp. 267-283. ("Effects of the Authentic? Self-Fashioning and Reference in the Autobiography by Johann of Soest (1504/05)," in: Varieties of Texts and Text Production in Medieval German Literature)

"Das volle Wort: Sprachklang im späteren Minnesang. Gottfried von Neifen, Wir suln aber schône enpfâhen (KLD Lied 3)," in: Text und Handeln. Zum kommunikativen Ort von Minnesang und antiker Lyrik, ed. Albrecht Hausmann with Cornelia Logemann and Christian Rode. Heidelberg : Winter, 2004 (Beihefte zum Euphorion 46), pp. 185-202. ("The Full Word: The Sound of Language in Late Minnesang. Gottfried von Neifen, Wir suln aber schone enphahen (KLD Lied 3)," in: Text and Practice: On the Communicative Place of Minnesang and Classical Poetry)

"Männlichkeit in der Lyrik Burkharts von Hohenfels," in: Aventiuren des Geschlechts. Modelle von Männlichkeit in der Literatur des 13. Jahrhunderts, ed. Martin Baisch et al. Göttingen: v&r unipress, 2003 (Aventiuren 1), pp. 77-100. ("Masculinity in the Poetry of Burkhart von Hohenfels," in: Adventures of Gender: Models of Masculinity in Thirteenth-Century Literature.)

"Alexander in der Echokammer. Intertextualität in Ulrichs von Etzenbach Montagewerk," in: Dialoge. Sprachliche Kommunikation in und zwischen Texten im deutschen Mittelalter, ed. Nikolaus Henkel, Martin H. Jones and Nigel F. Palmer with Christine Putzo. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003, pp. 113-134. ("Alexander in the Echo Chamber: Intertextuality in the Assembled Work by Ulrich von Etzenbach," in: Dialogues: Communication in and between Texts in the German Middle Ages)

"Vielfache Erinnerung. Universaler Stoff und partikulare Bindung in Ulrichs von Etzenbach Alexander," in: Alexanderdichtungen im Mittelalter. Kulturelle Selbstbestimmung im Kontext literarischer Beziehungen, ed. Jan Cölln, Susanne Friede, and Hartmut Wulfram. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2000 (Literatur und Kulturräume im Mittelalter 1), pp. 407-448. ("Multiple Memory: Universal Material and Regional Relation in Ulrich's von Etzenbach Alexander," in: Alexander Epics in the Middle Ages: Cultural Self-Definition within the Context of Literary Relations.)

"Die unmögliche Empörung des Sängers. Zu Heinrichs von Morungen 'Ich wil ein reise' und Burkharts von Hohenfels 'Mich müet daz so manger sprichet',"Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik 114 (1999), pp. 156-166. ("The Impossible Revolt of the Singer. On Heinrich's von Morungen 'Ich wil ein reise' and Burkhart's von Hohenfels 'Mich müet daz so manger sprichet'")

Entries in Handbook of Medieval Studies, Handschriftencensus, and Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik. Reviews in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Speculum, Seminar, Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Germanistik, Arbitrium, and Fabula.

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