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. He greatly contributed to the studies on Chaucerian polyphony, having published three books on the subject (
Geoffrey Chaucer: polyphonie et modernité in 2015 and ''Chaucer's Polyphony: The Modern in Medieval Poetry
in 2020, and Polyphony and the Modern'' in 2021), and dozens of articles. 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
Les faits et gestes de Robin des Bois (UGA Editions, 2017). 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, 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. 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 ==