The phrase "academic herself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize a woman's identity or role in an academic context, often highlighting her achievements or characteristics related to academia.
Example: "As an academic herself, she understands the challenges faced by students in higher education."
Alternatives: "scholar herself" or "intellectual herself".
With all those qualifications in her trade, one might have expected Flynn to become either a media academic herself or at least ply her pen in a literary magazine.
Margaret Neale proved to be an excellent choice not only because of her experience in this area but also because she's an academic herself and was able to establish herself as credible to our naturally skeptical audience.
A former academic herself, Victoria left the profession two years ago after suffering a self-described breakdown.
Tonight I've been watching The Review Show on TV: an American academic professed herself "put off" by all the praise for Daniel Day-Lewis's portrayal of Abraham Lincoln before she saw it.
The Lost Daughter (2006) The novella, about a divorced academic who finds herself morbidly drawn to a family she sees on the beach, prefigures many of the themes of the Neapolitan novels, including female relationships, motherhood and class.
The expansion of the tale by the librettist and director Donald Sturrock includes a love story between a handsome porcupine and a lonely hedgehog, and a character called Rita the Rat, a cider-saturated hippie academic, who pulls herself together and helps save the day.
In 2002 Beckinsale starred in Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon as a strait-laced academic who finds herself increasingly attracted to her free-spirited future mother-in-law.
In preparation for my reading of the Qur'an, I also read The Story of the Qur'an by Ingrid Mattson, an academic who describes herself as a "faithful Muslim," and reacquainted myself with the history of the period in which Muhammad lived.
An academic friend who counts herself as a devout feminist recently tried to set me up (for the third time).
After the second world war, Marie emigrated to the United States, where she was reunited with her daughter, and established herself in academic life.
All at once, an Atlanta academic was to find herself with the unenviable task of marshalling conclusive scientific proof for the attempted extermination of the European Jews over 50 years earlier.
