Markus Huss, born in 1981, died in late December 2024.

He was Associate Professor in German Literature at Stockholm University. Previously, Markus Huss worked as a senior lecturer in Comparative Literature at Karlstad University and as a substitute lecturer in Comparative Literature at Södertörn University. He had been Fulbright Hildeman Fellow at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2017.

He took a PhD in Comparative Literature at Södertörn University and Stockholm University, 2014, defending his thesis Motståndets akustik. Språk och (o)ljud hos Peter Weiss 1946–1960.