Someone who teaches in an academy (i.e., a university or college).
“I don’t know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I ended up in graduate school because I already secretly sided with the academics. In any case, I stopped believing that ‘theory’ had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved by studying it. Was love really such a tenuous thing? Wasn’t the point of love that it made you want to learn more, immerse yourself, to become possessed?”
Elif Batuman, The Possessed (2010).
On behalf of all of us lit professors out here, thank you for reminding people that learning does not "kill" the object of study, on the contrary...
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