Lingua Franca, the Magazine of Naked Academia; It's Taken the Starch Out of Scholars and The Ivy Off the Walls

From: The Washington Post | Date: May 25, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

Early on, would-be publisher Jeffrey Kittay had a tough time explaining what this new magazine called Lingua Franca was going to be.

It would be for academics and about academics but not by academics, he told people. It would "bring out the sexiness and juiciness of academic life," a phrase that produced considerable head- scratching. It would be as lively as a professor who's had a few beers with a colleague, not as deadly as a professor drafting a departmental memorandum; it would reflect what Kittay calls "the late- night phone call discourse rather than the Monday morning faculty meeting ...

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