Jonathan Fruoco

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'''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<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb45395277w|title=Les faits et gestes de Robin des Bois : poèmes, ballades et saynètes|date=2017|publisher=UGA éditions|isbn=978-2-37747-013-6|editor-last=Fruoco|editor-first=Jonathan|edition=Éd. bilingue|series=Moyen âge européen|location=Grenoble}}</ref> poems in French and has directed a research project leading to the development of the notion of serial imaginary.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb45282809z|title=Imaginaire sériel : les mécanismes sériels à l'oeuvre dans l'acte créatif|date=2017|publisher=UGA éditions, Université Grenoble Alpes|others=Jonathan Fruoco, Andréa Rando Martin, Arnaud Laimé|isbn=978-2-37747-000-6|series=Ateliers de l'imaginaire|location=Grenoble}}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|url=https://www.cambridgescholars.com/editors/item/280|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=20 January 2021|website=www.cambridgescholars.com|language=en}}</ref> He greatly contributed to the studies on Chaucerian polyphony, having published three books on the subject (''Geoffrey Chaucer: polyphonie et modernité''<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.bpi.fr/en/document/ark:/34201/nptfl0001325329?searchToken=d624a56e85ed2ade69b647ec984b42c4a17c9aa3|title=Catalogue Bpi - Document Geoffrey Chaucer : polyphonie et modernité|isbn=978-2-35692-134-5|language=en |last1=Fruoco |first1=Jonathan |date=2015 |publisher=Michel Houdiard Éditeur }}</ref> in 2015 and ''Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fruoco|first=Jonathan|url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/558350|title=Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry|date=12 October 2020|publisher=Medieval Institute Publications|isbn=978-1-5015-1436-4|language=en}}</ref> in 2020, and ''Polyphony and the Modern'' in 2021<ref>{{Cite web|title=Polyphony and the Modern|url=https://www.routledge.com/Polyphony-and-the-Modern/Fruoco/p/book/9780367655150|access-date=25 February 2021|website=Routledge & CRC Press|language=en}}</ref>), and dozens of articles.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jonathan Fruoco – Humanities Commons|url=https://hcommons.org/members/jonathanfruoco/|access-date=20 January 2021|language=en-US}}</ref>

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<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lone Medievalist Prize for Scholarship – The Lone Medievalist|url=https://lonemedievalist.hcommons.org/lone-medievalist-prize-for-scholarship/|access-date=20 January 2021|language=en-US}}</ref> ''Les faits et gestes de Robin des Bois'' (UGA Editions, 2017).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.bpi.fr/en/document/ark:/34201/nptfl0001455639?searchToken=d780d23589dc1dd54d04449b3980cdc9b572dee5|title=Catalogue Bpi - Document Les faits et gestes de Robin des bois : poèmes, ballades et saynètes|isbn=978-2-37747-013-6|language=en |last1=Fruoco |first1=Jonathan |date=2017 |publisher=UGA Éditions }}</ref> 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,<ref>{{Cite web|last=ORCID|title=Jonathan Fruoco (0000-0003-1642-9357)|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1642-9357|access-date=20 January 2021|website=orcid.org|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Perin Rocha Pitta|first=Danielle|date=2017|title=Imaginário serial: compartilhamento de arquétipos|url=https://www.revistas.usp.br/Rumores/article/view/134370|journal=Rumores|volume=December 2017|pages=10–11|via=}}</ref> 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).

== Recent Publications == * Blanc, William, Breton, Justine and Fruoco, Jonathan. ''Robin des Bois. De Sherwood à Hollywood.'' Montreuil: Libertalia, 2024. * Fruoco, Jonathan (ed.). ''Unveiling the Green Knight.'' Nanterre: Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2024. * Fruoco, Jonathan. ''Geoffrey Chaucer. Troïlus et Criseyde: oeuvres complètes'' (Tome II). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. * Fruoco, Jonathan. ''Geoffrey Chaucer. Le Livre de la Duchesse: oeuvres complètes'' (Tome I). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021. *Fruoco, Jonathan. ''Polyphony and the Modern.'' London: Routledge, 2021. *Fruoco, Jonathan. ''Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry''. Kalamazoo, Berling: MIP, De Gruyter, 2020. * Fruoco, Jonathan. "Geoffrey Chaucer et le dédale de Renommée". ''Questes'' 42. Paris: Presses Universitaires de la Sorbonne, 2020. * Fruoco, Jonathan. "Si l’or doit rouiller, que deviendra le fer ? Chaucer et les représentations du Pardonneur dans les Contes de Canterbury". ''Mélanges de Science'' ''Religieuses'' 76/4. Lille: FLSH de l’Université Catholique de Lille, 2019, p. 5-18. * Fruoco, Jonathan. "Emergence des vernaculaires et traductions du sacré dans l’Europe médiévale : le cas de conscience de l’Église". ‘Translatio’ and the History of Ideas: Ideas, language, politics. Volume 1 Edited by Anna Kukułka-Wojtasik. Berne: Peter Lang. 2019, p. 169-176. * Fruoco, Jonathan. "Geoffrey Chaucer, ''The Merchant’s Tale'' et la dialectique de l’élévation". IRIS, Ed. Fleur Vigneron, Université Grenoble Alpes, n°39, 2019. [http://ouvroir-litt-arts.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/revues/actalittarts/553-geoffrey-chaucer-the-merchant-s-tale-et-la-dialectique-de-l-elevation. On line], 03 Septembre 2019. * Fruoco, Jonathan. ''Les faits et gestes de Robin des Bois : poèmes, ballades et saynètes''. Grenoble: UGA Éditions, 2017. * Fruoco, Jonathan, Laimé, Arnaud, Rando Martin, Andréa (Ed.). ''Imaginaire sériel: Les mécanismes sériels à l'oeuvre dans l'acte créatif''. Grenoble: UGA Éditions, 2017.

== External links == * {{Official website|https://jonathanfruoco.com}}

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