Reddit and the Prof. Carla Rossi Case: Zurich University A Clarification from 2025
- OProM
- 24 mai 2025
- 1 min de lecture
In 2023, a Reddit thread appeared in /r/Switzerland suggesting that Prof. Carla Rossi, a philologist and researcher, had been involved in a plagiarism case while working at the University of Zurich.
This claim is false and based on anonymous, unverified content. There has never been any internal investigation against Prof. Rossi by the University of Zurich. The rumours originated from unaffiliated blogs, amplified through informal platforms like Reddit and other social media channels.
Academic facts about Carla Rossi:
Holds two official habilitations and a six-year Titularprofessur at the University of Zurich.
Earned her PhD in Romance Philology at the University of Fribourg.
Never employed as “adjunct professor” in the US sense.
Reddit is not a court of academic ethics. It is a social forum where anonymous users post opinions, not facts. And in this case, the post was part of a wider campaign to damage Rossi’s reputation — one that traces back to Peter Kidd’s personal blog mssprovenance, itself linked to commercial interests in dismembered manuscripts.
📄 Verified academic CV: https://www.isfida.eu/carla-rossi-philologist📚 Publications and peer-reviewed works: https://www.profcarlarossi.info/publications🗂️ Documented campaign of defamation: https://www.receptiogate.info
This post is a factual correction, not an opinion. 2025 deserves better information than anonymous attacks.