Markus Stock

Principal, University College (on leave 2024-25)
Professor of German and Medieval Studies
2024-25 Senior Research Fellow, Humboldt Centre, University of Bayreuth

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

By appointment: Please contact markus.stock@utoronto.ca

Classes 2024-25

Professor Stock is on a planned administrative leave to conduct research.

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 research and his teaching are situated in medieval German literatures, manuscript studies, and digital philology. He directs the international research project Medieval Undergrounds: A Cultural History of Extraction, 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. Currently serving as Senior Research Fellow at the Humboldt Centre of the University of Bayreuth, Germany, he 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 also served as President of German Studies Canada from 2021–23.

Recent Publications (2018 – present):

Edition

Burkhard von Hohenfels. Edition und Kommentar. (1 October 2020).

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. with Christina Lechtermann: “Paratext und ‚Werkpolitik‘: Das Marienleben ‚Do gott der vater geschuff Adam und Eua’ zwischen Exegese und Narration,“ in Text und Paratext: Praktiken und Strategien vormoderner Werkpolitik, Silvia Reuvekamp, accepted, forthcoming 2025. (“Paratext and Textual Politics: The Marienleben ‚Do gott der vater geschuff Adam und Eua’ between Exegesis and Narration,“ in Text and Paratext: Practices and Strategies of Premodern Textual Politics.)
  2. “Belagerte Städte, ferne Ziele und die transient-periphere Logik in mittelhochdeutschen Alexanderromanen (Pfaffe Lamprecht, Ulrich von Etzenbach),” Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik (Reihe A) 148 (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”)
  3. “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.)
  4. with Renae Watchman and Carrie Smith: “Building Transdisciplinary Relationships: Indigenous and German Studies,” in: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies4 (2019), pp. 309-327.
  5. “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”)
  6. “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 Sophie Marshall, Jenseits der Gabe. Schätze und Geld in mittelalterlicher Literatur. Berlin: Schwabe, 2023. Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 65 (2024), accepted, forthcoming.
  2. Review of Olivia Kobiela, Ästhetik der Fremde des Herzog Ernst B. Die Kartographie des 12./13. Jahrhunderts als ästhetisches Reflexionsmedium der mittelalterlichen Literatur, Paderborn: Brill Fink 2022, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 146 (2024), pp. 699–702.
  3. Review of Simone Leidinger, Dietmar von Aist: Vielschichtige Poetik. Studien zu einer literarhistorischen und forschungsgeschichtlichen Standortbestimmung. Heidelberg: Winter, 2019, and Anna Sara Lahr, Diversität als Potential. Eine Neuperspektivierung des frühesten Minnesangs. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020, Journal of English and Germanic Philology 123 (2024), pp. 266–269.
  4. with Elke Koch and John Greenfield: “Editorial: Höflichkeit – historische Dimensionen eines (trans-)kulturellen Konzepts,” Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschiche der Literatur 1 (2024), pp. 91–99. (“Editorial: Courtesy – Historical Dimensions of a (Trans)Cultural Concept”).
  5. 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 64 (2023), 220–221.
  6. “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)
  7. 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)
  8. with Walker Horsfall: “Konrad von Würzburg – A Bibliography. Second edition,” online https://hdl.handle.net/1807/127259 (April 2023), 90 pp.
  9. with Christina Lechtermann: “Introduction: Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” Glossator 12 (2022), pp. 1–10.
  10. with Carrie Smith: “Introduction: Digital Curation in German Studies,” Seminar 3 (2021), pp. 187–192.
  11. “Burkhard von Hohenfels und Gottfried von Neifen,” in: Handbuch Minnesang, ed. Beate Kellner et al., Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 722–
  12. Review of: Literarische Orte in deutschsprachigen Erzählungen des Mittelalters. Ein Handbuch, ed. Tilo Renz et al., Germanistik 61 (2020), p. 924.
  13. 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.” World Congress of the International Association of German Studies, University of Graz, 23 July 2025.
  2. “Im Bergwerk des Herrn: Vertikale Deutungsmuster in Bergpredigten des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts.” Conference “Untergründe/Unterwelten: Vertikale Verflechtungsgeschichten, 1400–1700,” University of Bayreuth, 19 March 2025.
  3. “Frühe deutsche Philologie: Der Humanist Jan Otho, kreatives Schreiben auf Althochdeutsch und die Bibliothek von St. Pantaleon in Köln,” Otto Friedrichs University of Bamberg, 9 December 2025 (seminar talk).
  4. “ Höhlen, Zwerge und unterirdische Reichtümer: Imaginationen des Untergrunds in historischer Perspektive,” Bayreuther Stadtgespräche, 4 December 2024.
  5. “Autorschaft und Überlieferung: Konrads von Würzburg ,Ave Maria’ und das ‚Turnier von Nantheiz‘ als Grenzfälle,” University of Braunschweig, 13 November 2024.
  6. “Herzog Ernst und Graf Wetzel,” University of Heidelberg, 31 October 2024 (invited guest lecture in lecture series
  7. “Vertikale Deutungsmuster: Imaginationen des Untergrunds in historischer Perspektive,” University of Porto, 24 October 2024.