Jonathan Fruoco

FRHistS
Born
Grenoble, France
Alma materGrenoble Alpes University, Paris Nanterre University
Known forSerial imaginary, Chaucer's dialogism, medieval translations
Scientific career
FieldsMedieval literature, historical sociolinguistics, anthropology, translation studies
InstitutionsParis Nanterre University - CREA
Websitewww.jonathanfruoco.com

Jonathan Fruoco, FRHistS (born 1987) is a French historian who specializes in medieval English literature, with a specific focus on the polyphony of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, and historical sociolinguistics. In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

He is notably the first translator and editor of the medieval Robin Hood[1] poems in French and has directed a research project leading to the development of the notion of serial imaginary.[2]

Biography

Dr. Fruoco was trained as a sociolinguist at Université Grenoble Alpes and then focused his interest on the cultural and linguistic evolution of medieval England.[3] He greatly contributed to the studies on Chaucerian polyphony, having published three books on the subject (Geoffrey Chaucer: polyphonie et modernité[4] in 2015 and Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry[5] in 2020, and Polyphony and the Modern in 2021[6]), and dozens of articles.[7]

He posits that Chaucer, who has long been considered as the father of English poetry, should rather be thought of as the father of English prose and one of the main creators of the polyphonic novel, in the Bakhtinian sense of the word.

Besides his work as a medievalist, Dr. Fruoco has edited and translated for the very first time in French a selection of medieval poems and plays about Robin Hood published in the award-winning[8] Les faits et gestes de Robin des Bois (UGA Editions, 2017).[9] These texts, which had long been unknown to French academics and general readers, track the birth and evolution of this legendary character from the Middle Ages to the end of the Renaissance.

As Associate researcher at Université Grenoble Alpes,[10] he organized a series of conferences that put forward the concept of imaginary and tried to understand how it functions when faced with serial works of art.[11] This research led to the coinage of serial imaginary and was illustrated in Imaginaire sériel: Les mécanismes sériels à l'oeuvre dans l'acte créatif, (Jonathan Fruoco and Andréa Rando Martin (Ed.), Grenoble, UGA Edition, 2017).

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References

  1. ^ Fruoco, Jonathan, ed. (2017). Les faits et gestes de Robin des Bois : poèmes, ballades et saynètes. Moyen âge européen (Éd. bilingue ed.). Grenoble: UGA éditions. ISBN 978-2-37747-013-6.
  2. ^ Imaginaire sériel : les mécanismes sériels à l'oeuvre dans l'acte créatif. Ateliers de l'imaginaire. Jonathan Fruoco, Andréa Rando Martin, Arnaud Laimé. Grenoble: UGA éditions, Université Grenoble Alpes. 2017. ISBN 978-2-37747-000-6.((cite book)): CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ "Cambridge Scholars Publishing". www.cambridgescholars.com. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  4. ^ Catalogue Bpi - Document Geoffrey Chaucer : polyphonie et modernité. ISBN 978-2-35692-134-5.
  5. ^ Fruoco, Jonathan (2020-10-12). Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry. Medieval Institute Publications. ISBN 978-1-5015-1436-4.
  6. ^ "Polyphony and the Modern". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  7. ^ "Jonathan Fruoco – Humanities Commons". Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  8. ^ "Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarship – The Lone Medievalist". Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  9. ^ Catalogue Bpi - Document Les faits et gestes de Robin des bois : poèmes, ballades et saynètes. ISBN 978-2-37747-013-6.
  10. ^ ORCID. "Jonathan Fruoco (0000-0003-1642-9357)". orcid.org. Retrieved 2021-01-20.
  11. ^ Perin Rocha Pitta, Danielle (2017). "Imaginário serial: compartilhamento de arquétipos". Rumores. December 2017: 10–11.
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