For the record, there’s no need for the scare quotes here. I’m a full-time professor at a moderately respectable university. This makes me literally and uncontroversially an academic by virtually any common definition of the term. 
In fact, the writer seems to use academic as a slur, to suggest that my lack of real-world knowledge and experience should make me less legitimate or credible. The scare quotes merely blunt that.
He or she also put scare quotes around my name, which is, literally, my actual name. So I’m thinking perhaps punctuation isn’t their strong suit.
Probably they just really hate abstract black and white photography.
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