I feel like I need to listen to this Naomi Wolf thing but I’m like scared to. Okay I’m going in.
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Makes it considerably worse frankly. She had an advisor? I guess as you said, she had some lit person advising who simply wasn’t familiar with the historical material. Sad. Having flashbacks to interdisciplinary smack downs back in the day.
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Historians do it, too. Researching my dissertation, I realized that a fairly prominent historian who claimed that newspaper accounts of the Ripper all created a master narrative didn't realize that they were similar because they were identical wire service reports.
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I guess it’s possible that mid life celebrity PhD candidates have different dissertation defense standards than the common herd of doctoral plebes.
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This does seem like something a professor of Victorian English history on the committee might have been able to catch
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