Markus Stock

Principal, University College
Vice-Dean, College Relations, Faculty of Arts & 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

Fridays 8:30-10am (UC 165)

Classes 2025-2026

GER 426/GER1200 F Introduction to Medieval German Language and Literature (Fall term, Fridays 10-12)

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 as well as senior research fellowships at the Humboldt Centre of the University of Bayreuth and the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies. He also served as President of German Studies Canada from 2021–23, co-editor of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies (2017–2022), and as Erasmus Mundus Scholar at the universities of Porto and Palermo.

Recent Publications (2020 – present):

Edition

Burkhard von Hohenfels. Edition und Kommentar. http://www.ldm-digital.de/autoren.php?au=Burk (1 October 2020).

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

  1. Elke Koch, John Greenfield, and Markus Stock (Eds.): Höflichkeit – historische Dimensionen eines (trans-)kulturellen Konzepts. Special themed issue of Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der Literatur 1 (2024), pp. 91–222 (132 pp.). (Courtesy – Historical Dimensions of a [Trans-]Cultural Concept)
  2. Konrad von Würzburg: Ein Handbuch. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023 (398pp.).
  3. 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.).
  4. Carrie Smith and Markus Stock (Eds.): Digital Curation. Special Issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies3 (2021), pp. 187–333 (147 pp.).
  5. 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.).

Articles

  1. “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”)
  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.)

Book chapters

  1. R “Die Vergangenheit ist nicht vergangen. Zur Relevanz einer interdisziplinären germanistischen Philologie des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit,” in Kein Baum ohne Wurzeln: Die Enthistorisierung der Kultur-, Literatur-, und Sprachwissenschaft und die Bedeutung des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit für das Verständnis der Moderne, Laura Auteri and John Greenfield. Berlin (Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik – Beihefte), accepted, forthcoming 2026. (“The Past Isn’t Past. On the Relevance of an Interdisciplinary Germanist Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period,” in No Tree without Roots: The Dehistorization of Cultural, Literary, and Language Studies, and the Significance of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period for the Understanding of Modernity).
  2. R 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. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, accepted, forthcoming. (“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.)
  3. R with Sophie Jordan: “Time and Temporality in Mystical Song: Hadewijch and Granum sinapis,” in Multivocality and Responsiveness. Medieval Literature in Dialogue: Essays by Almut Suerbaum in Context, ed. Racha Kirakosian and Linus Ubl. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, accepted, forthcoming.
  4. “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).
  5. 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.)
  6. “Cunneware de Lalant and her Brothers: The Other Family in Wolfram’s Parzival,” in diz vliegende bîspel: Ambiguity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, ed. Marian E. Polhill and Alexander Sager (Transatlantic Studies). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2020, pp. 39–52.

Reviews, smaller articles, and non-refereed publications

  1. Review of Giovanna Montenegro, German Conquistadors in Venezuela. The Welsers’ Colony, Racialized Capitalism, and Cultural Memory. Notre Dame: Notre Dame UP, 2022. Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies3 (2025), accepted, forthcoming.
  2. Review of Sophie Marshall, Jenseits der Gabe. Schätze und Geld in mittelalterlicher Literatur. Berlin: Schwabe, 2023, Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch 65 (2024), pp. 233–238.
  3. Review of: Olivia Kobiela, ÄsthEthik der Fremde des Herzog Ernst B. Die Kartographie des 12./13. Jahrhunderts als ästhEthisches Reflexionsmedium der mittelalterlichen Literatur, Paderborn: Brill Fink 2022, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 146 (2024), pp. 701–704.
  4. 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.
  5. 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”).
  6. 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.
  7. “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)
  8. 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)
  9. with Walker Horsfall: “Konrad von Würzburg – A Bibliography. Second edition,” online https://hdl.handle.net/1807/127259 (April 2023), 90 pp.
  10. with Christina Lechtermann: “Introduction: Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” Glossator 12 (2022), pp. 1–10.
  11. with Carrie Smith: “Introduction: Digital Curation in German Studies,” Seminar 3 (2021), pp. 187–192.
  12. “Burkhard von Hohenfels und Gottfried von Neifen,” in: Handbuch Minnesang, ed. Beate Kellner et al., Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 722–
  13. Review of: Literarische Orte in deutschsprachigen Erzählungen des Mittelalters. Ein Handbuch, ed. Tilo Renz et al., Germanistik 61 (2020), p. 924.
  14. with Christina Lechtermann: “Introduction,” Zeitsprünge 1-2 (2020), pp. 1–6.

Translations

  1. Florian Geddes, Walker Horsfall, Astrid Klee, Wanwisa Oungcharoen, Markus Stock, and Jingyi Yang: Minnesinger Lab: Burkhard von Hohenfels in English Translation. Online, 2024.

Recent and upcoming talks:

  1. “Berg/Mann: Montane Verflechtungsgeschichten in vor- und frühmodernen Texten,” University of Freiburg, 5 November 2025.
  2. “undern stein. Die Grotte als Zuflucht in mittelhochdeutschen Erzähltexten.” World Congress of the International Association of German Studies, University of Graz, 23 July 2025.
  3. “Gender Roles and Freedom of Choice in Medieval German Women Stanzas,” University of Porto, 23 May 2025.