Markus Stock

Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European and Eurasian Studies

Principal, University College

Vice-Dean, College Relations, Faculty of Arts and Science

Professor of German and Medieval Studies, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures

markus.stock@utoronto.ca

416-978-7516

german.utoronto.ca/markus-stock/

Areas of interest

German languages, literatures, and cultures of the Middle Ages

Biography

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 has authored, edited, or co-edited a dozen books and special journal issues, including, most recently, 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 currently serves as President of German Studies Canada (2021–23).

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Editions

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

Articles

With Renae Watchman and Carrie Smith: “Building Transdisciplinary Relationships: Indigenous and German Studies,” in: Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 55.4 (2019), pp. 309-327.
“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”)
“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.”)
“Knowledge, Hybridity, and the King of the Crane-Heads. Herzog Ernst B, Herzog Ernst G, and the Forchheim Crane-Head,” Daphnis 45 (2017), pp. 339-359.
“Triôs, triên, trisô. Klangspiele bei Wernher von Teufen und Gottfried von Neifen,” Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 138 (2016), pp. 365-389. (“Triôs, triên, trisô. Sound Play in Wernher von Teufen and Gottfried von Neifen.”)
With Ann Marie Rasmussen: “Medieval Media,” Seminar 52.2 (2016), pp. 97-106.
“Philological Moves,” Florilegium 32 (2015), pp. 1-17.

Book Chapters

“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).
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.)
“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.
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.)
“Anerkennen und Identifizieren: swert nemen und räumliche Praxis am Artushof (Parzival, Wigalois),” in Anerkennung und die Möglichkeit der Gabe, ed. Martin Baisch. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2017 (Hamburger Beiträge zur Germanistik 58), pp. 241-262 (Recognition and Identification: ‘Taking a Sword’ and Spatial Practice at the Arthurian Court (Parzival, Wigalois),” in Recognition and the Possibilities of Giving.)
“Fluid Texts, Distant Worlds: Transculturality and Translatability in Late Medieval German Alexander Romances,” in Transkulturalität und Translation. Deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters im europäischen Kontext, ed. Laura Auteri and Ingrid Kasten. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2017, pp. 101-108.
“Herkunftsraum und Identität: Heterotopien der Herkunft im mittelhochdeutschen Roman (Lanzelet, Tristan, Parzival, Trojanerkrieg),” in Literarische Räume der Fallstudien zu einer historischen Narratologie, ed. Maximilian Benz and Katrin Dennerlein. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2016, pp. 187-204 (“Place of Origin and Identity: Heterotopias of Origin in Middle High German Romance,” in Literary Places of Origin: Elements of a Historical Narratology.)
“The Medieval Alexander: Transcultural Perspectives,” in Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages: Transcultural Perspectives, ed. Markus Stock. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 3-12.
“Lesbarkeit. Herrscher und Verräter im Alexander Rudolfs von Ems,” in Verstellung und Betrug im Mittelalter und in der mittelalterlichen Literatur, ed. Matthias Meyer and Alexander Sager, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Academic, 2015, pp. 239-259. (“Readability: Ruler and Traitor in Rudolf von Ems’ Alexander,” in Dissimulation and Deceit in the Middle Ages and in Medieval Literature.)
“Poetologien der Oberfläche: Das Beispiel der mittelhochdeutschen Antikenepik. Mit einigen Bemerkungen zum New Formalism,” in Literarischer Stil. Mittelalterliche Literatur zwischen Konvention und Innovation, ed. Elizabeth Andersen et al. Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2015, 141-156 (“Surface Poetologies: The Example of Middle High German Epics from Classical Sources. With Some Remarks on the New Formalism,” in Literary Style: Convention and Innovation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.)

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

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.).
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.).
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.).
Ann Marie Rasmussen and Markus Stock (Eds.): Medieval Media. Special Issue of Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies2 (2016), pp. 97-253 (157 pp.).
Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages: Transcultural Perspectives. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016 (281 pp.). Reviews: Felicitas Schmieder in Sehepunkte 17 (2017), http://www.sehepunkte.de/2017/12/28616.html; Falk Quenstedt in Arbitrium 35 (2017), pp. 310-315.
Markus Stock and Christa Canitz (Eds.): Rethinking Philology. 25 Years after the ‘New Philology.’ Special Issue of Florilegium 32 (2015) (285 pp.).

Reviews and non-refereed online publications

with Christina Lechtermann: “Introduction: Commenting and Commentary as an Interpretive Mode in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,” Glossator 12 (2022), pp. 1–10.
with Carrie Smith: “Introduction: Digital Curation in German Studies,” Seminar 3 (2021), pp. 187–192.
“Burkhard von Hohenfels und Gottfried von Neifen,” in: Handbuch Minnesang, ed. Beate Kellner et al., Berlin: de Gruyter, 2021, pp. 722–
Review of: Literarische Orte in deutschsprachigen Erzählungen des Mittelalters. Ein Handbuch, ed. Tilo Renz et al. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018, Germanistik 61 (2020), p. 924.
with Christina Lechtermann: “Introduction,” Zeitsprünge 1-2 (2020), pp. 1–6.
Review of: Eva-Maria Hochkirchen, Präsenz des Singvogels im Minnesang und in der Trouvèrepoesie, Heidelberg: Winter 2015, Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 139 (2017), pp. 450-455.
with Walker Horsfall: “Konrad von Würzburg – A Bibliography,” online http://hdl.handle.net/1807/76860 (April 2017), 65 pp.