The phrase "academic of the" is not correct and usable in written English as it is incomplete and lacks context.
It could potentially be used in a context where you are referring to a specific academic field or title, but it needs additional information to be meaningful.
Example: "She is an academic of the humanities, focusing on literature and philosophy."
Alternatives: "scholar in the" or "expert in the".
Tolkien was also an esteemed scholar of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf and a noted academic of the period.
Ehrman has been the favorite academic of the new wave of atheism since his book "Misquoting Jesus" (2005) became an unlikely best-seller.
Smith, the most serious academic of the group, became critical of Leary.He found Leary's slogan "Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out" "too negative to command respect".
I still believe there are some who would rather feminism remained the preserve of the academic, of the white, middle-class journalist, not the schoolgirl on the street and certainly not the supermodel.
Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past.
Although he looked like a stereotypical liberal academic of the 1950s (bow tie, sweater vest, leather elbow patches, pipe and matches), there was nothing noticeably liberal about the ideological and political content of what he was saying.
He has been the academic lead of the academic Metabolomics Research Centre since its inception in 2006.
In 1946 he decided to pursue an academic career, becoming one of the founding academics of the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield, now Cranfield University.
What – if anything – are we doing to incentivise our most promising engineering graduates to become the academics of the future?
Well, Bjorn and Francis also have in common the distinction of being among the most wrong academics of the last 100 years.
