fictionalacademic
Fictionalacademic is a term used in creative writing and cultural studies to describe a constructed scholarly persona or a mode of inquiry that treats invented material as if it were genuine research. The concept encompasses both a literary device and a disciplinary stance, where fiction is analyzed, cited, and discussed with the conventions of academe, including bibliographies, methodological sections, and peer-review rhetoric.
Origins of the term are informal; it emerged in online writing communities and collaborative fiction projects
Typical features include a formal tone, the use of invented or fictitious sources, and explicit framing that
Practices labeled as fictionalacademic are usually self-aware and designed to provoke reflection rather than to deceive
See also: metafiction; pseudo-scholarship; paratext; epistemic fiction.