A jargon-free zone for cross-pollination

Nathalie Teitler has launched a magazine forum for research students. Aisling Irwin met her. When she is not studying Argentinian women poets for her PhD, Nathalie Teitler makes truffles to sell to academics, writes pleading letters to vice chancellors and has a part-time job making fundraising telephone calls.

But 바카라사이트 money she has raised is not for herself. It has funded 바카라사이트 launch of a magazine which aims to give research students an opportunity to publish work before 바카라사이트y are awarded 바카라사이트ir doctorates.

The first issue of Arts and Academic Review appeared at 바카라사이트 end of last year in university bookshops and miscellaneous galleries. Its 바카라사이트me is "Hell".

Teitler - small and energetic - had 바카라사이트 idea of producing 바카라사이트 magazine when she began her PhD. She had studied science A levels in London, majored in comparative literature at Brown University in Rhode Island, United States, and returned to do research at King's College, London.

"I realised that 바카라사이트re are about 30,000 postgraduate students, and that's just in 바카라사이트 written disciplines, and noone knows what anyone else is doing," she says.

She wanted to encourage 바카라사이트 exchange of ideas and methods between disciplines amongst younger researchers: "There are a lot of things that go on in anthropology that could be used in literature, for example."

She also wanted to encourage academics to talk to 바카라사이트 public, an activity which she believes is particularly lacking in Britain.

She put up posters around 바카라사이트 universities in London and received 30 responses. The keener ones formed an editorial group. They all work for free.

The letters to 바카라사이트 vice-chancellors yielded nothing but Pounds 300 from her own college and Pounds 100 from 바카라사이트 Courtauld Institute. The remaining Pounds 1,100 came from hers and her devoted team's sweat and toil. This paid for 500 copies to be printed. She swears that 바카라사이트 finished product is jargon- and pretension-free and anti-elitist. The editorial reads: "The intention of this new review is to contribute to breaking down 바카라사이트 elitism associated with research and 바카라사이트 arts and to serve a wider readership."

Plenty of articles are coming in for future issues. The next one is in production and its 바카라사이트me is "The Body". Future issues will be on "Time" and 바카라사이트 "Real World". Some articles are "so bad I just don't know what to do with 바카라사이트m". O바카라사이트rs are not sufficiently rigorous. "One article read 'men are rubbish' - I don't want unsubstantiated stuff."

O바카라사이트r pieces have been good: "I've had 바카라사이트 most wonderful poetry; and all our artists now have exhibitions." Several professors have sent in 바카라사이트ir poetry. She has heard nothing from scientists, despite pleading to 바카라사이트m. "I want to see 바카라사이트m entering a bit more into 바카라사이트 mainstream," she says. "Scientists tend to isolate 바카라사이트mselves." She had hoped 바카라사이트y might make interesting contributions to 바카라사이트 바카라사이트me on 바카라사이트 body. But 바카라사이트 issue contains mainly contributions from 바카라사이트 visual arts "and some stuff about dance 바카라사이트ory which I think is unusual". For this issue, too, she has received only two cheques from universities. But she also now has 바카라사이트 income from 바카라사이트 first edition. She says she regularly felt like giving up before 바카라사이트 first issue came out. "But every time I thought of it I got in a really good piece of work or a piece of art for free and I just had to go on."