معرفی
Julien R. Stout is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French & Italian at Princeton University. His research focuses on medieval authorship concepts, multilingual soundscapes in medieval poetry, and manuscript culture. He interrogates how transnational book markets and sensory experiences of language shaped early French literary identity, particularly in Judeo-French texts and Occitan-French interactions.
His first monograph, L’auteur retrouvé (2025), challenges teleological narratives of medieval authorship by analyzing manuscript collections' collaborative construction. His second project investigates multilingual sung poetry’s sonic dimensions, blending codicology with sound studies. His articles address topics like medieval paratextual practices, youthful authorship concepts, and Anglo-Norman conversion narratives.
Stout’s work spans codicological analysis, sound experimentation, and cross-cultural textual studies. He collaborates with artists to create experimental editions of multilingual manuscripts, emphasizing graphic and auditory dimensions of medieval texts. His research bridges manuscript studies, cultural history, and contemporary theoretical debates on historical subjectivity.
