Everett Wheeler seems to have invented the word "Lehnstuhlfeldherr" just so he could throw it at me in his obscenely nasty review of my bookhttps://twitter.com/NatalieZed/status/1391150397922889739 …
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E. Wheeler taught a course on Roman Warfare (split grad/undergrad) at UNC while I was finishing up my classes and preparing for my prospectus. At my advisor's advice, I used the opportunity to demo out a beta version of my dissertation's thesis to get feedback.
To be fair, the critiques were very helpful in thinking about the prospectus and the project. If there is a weakness in your argument, Wheeler will find it. But those critiques were delivered - to my face - in the traditional Wheeler manner.
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I honestly find myself torn by Wheeler. On the one hand, his manner is very brusque and occasionally his critiques have a harshness I think steps over the line. On the other hand, there is a reward to be had for tolerating that brusqueness, given his mastery of the topics.
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I assure you there is no reward in tolerating the viciousness of this review. In more than 5000 words of deliberate distortions and cruel invective I found perhaps 3 or 4 minor points (biblio entries, etc) that I could actually work with.
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