, Paris, on the 6th of June 2013. Brian Stock, is a citizen of Canada and France. He is a historian of modes of perception between the ancient world and the sixteenth century. He was Rouse Ball Student at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Senior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, before joining the graduate faculty of the University of Toronto, where he taught history and literature until 2007.
Biography
A graduate of Harvard College and Trinity College, Brian Stock has taught in many universities in Canada, the United States, and Europe, including the University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, the University of California in Berkeley, where he gave Sather Classical Lectures in 2001, the Collège de France, where he held the International Chair, and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. It was with Charles Halpern, one of the organizers of the Center for Contemplative Mind, that he chaired the committee for two years of the . His research focuses on the learning of reading and writing, reading practices and the relationship between reading, inner life of the mind and secular and religious meditation in the classical period and the Middle Ages. His important publications include ' and '. In 2007 Brian Stock received the prestigious International Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei. Children: Maxime Stock Grandchildren: Thomas Pineau-Valencienne and Marie-Capucine Pineau-Valencienne
Honors and awards
Fiske Fellowship, Harvard College and Trinity College, Cambridge, 1962–63 Senior Rouse Ball Studentship, Trintiy College, Cambridge, 1966–67 Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1969–70 Senior Killam Fellowship, Canada Council, 1973–74 Directeur d'études associé, EHESS, Paris, 1981, 1994 University Professor of the Humanities, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985 Visiting Professor, Collège de France, 1987 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, 1990 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Université de Genève, 1990 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1990 William H. Morton Fellow, Humanities Institute, Dartmouth College, 1991 Academic Advisory Board, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1993–99 Chair Internationale, Collège de France, 1996 Resident Fellow, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Rockefeller Foundation, 1996 A. S. W. Rosenbach Lectures, University of Pennsylvania, 1999 Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2001. University Professor, Central European University, Budapest, 2001-. Lionel Trilling Seminar, Columbia University, 2001 Frederick Artz Lecture, Oberlin College, 2003. Hilldale Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2003. The Jerusalem Lectures, Historical Society of Israel, 2005 Mary White Lecture, University of Toronto, 2005 Lester Little Residency, American Academy of Rome, 2006–07 Fellow, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Rome, 2007 International Feltrinelli Prize, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2007 Comité scientifique, Institut d'études avancées, Paris, 2007–13 Honorary Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 2009 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
Augustine's Inner Dialogue: The Philosophical Soliloquy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2010
The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought, university of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
In French:
La connaissance de soi au Moyen Âge et la littérature autobiographique, leçon inaugurale faite le vendredi 9 janvier 1998, Paris, Conférences au Collège de France, 1998
Bibliothèques intérieures, trad. de Philippe Blanc et Christophe Carraud, préface de Christophe Carraud, Grenoble, Jérôme Millon, 2005
Lire, une ascèse ? Lecture ascétique et lecture esthétique dans la culture occidentale : Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures, 2005, trad. de Christophe Carraud, Grenoble, Jérôme Millon, 2008
