How the theme is declined in the different curricula:
DESE – Les Littératures de l’Europe unie / European Literatures
For the 42nd cycle, we welcome research projects focusing in particular on literary practices such as plagiarism, forgery, pseudonymity, or anonymity, and highlighting one or more forms of literary and editorial clandestinity through the prism of the European circulation of books, texts, and imagery.
EDGES – Women's and Gender Studies
Research projects for the 42nd cycle must focus on the ways in which women and marginalized or silenced subjectivities have negotiated their visibility, leaving traces of themselves while imagining alternative realities, contact zones, and transformative spaces. These spaces challenge gender boundaries as well as the boundaries between human and more-than-human subjectivities, rendering them fluid, redefining them, or overcoming them altogether. In particular, research projects should examine practices of falsification, plagiarism, manipulation, anonymity, and dissimulation, understood as discursive, authorial, narrative, and political discourses. Historically employed as instruments of control, exclusion, and power, these strategies will be investigated as transformative practices capable of subverting and redefining dominant literary genres. These topics may also be addressed from a diachronic perspective through an integrated critical approach that brings together Gender Studies methodologies, literary criticism, visual and intermedial studies, and cultural history. These topics may also be addressed from a diachronic perspective through an integrated critical approach that brings together Gender Studies methodologies, literary criticism, visual and intermedial studies, and cultural history.
WORLDLIT – World Literature and Postcolonial Studies
The research theme for the 42nd cycle focuses on forms of manipulation in and of literature and culture. Falsification, plagiarism, counterfeiting, and dissimulation are practices historically tied to the literary field and to different traditions, and may be addressed from a diachronic perspective. These practices may function both as thematic devices for exposing specific socio-political conditions and as strategies for subverting genres, discourses, and cultural spaces by subaltern subjects or communities. While such practices can be examined in their critical and problematic dimensions, they may also be understood as discursive, authorial, (meta)narrative, and political dispositifs that operate as agents of transformation, renewal, and the rethinking of hegemonic canons and traditions. The topic may be developed through approaches drawn from literary criticism, cultural studies, visual and transmedial studies, and cultural history.
LINGMOD – Modern Languages Studies
Projects submitted for the 42nd cycle of the PhD programme must address themes related to falsification, plagiarism, concealment, counterfeiting, and manipulation. Research will explore the theoretical frameworks and linguistic-discursive strategies underlying these phenomena in different linguistic and cultural contexts and across various domains of discourse. Such practices will be examined in their political, social, ideological, cognitive, and persuasive dimensions, spanning political and commercial communication, media and social media (dis)information, (pseudo-)scientific dissemination, institutional discourse, and everyday interaction. Through an integrated approach combining discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and translation studies, the curriculum aims to analyze a wide range of texts and contribute to interdisciplinary scholarly debate.
