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Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
poet, pedagogue, literary critic, essayist, inventor
- Victoria University, Radcliffe College
Noam Chomsky (born 1928)
philosopher, linguist, psychologist, anthropologist, human rights activist, educator, media critic, opinion journalist, computer scientist, historian, philologist
- Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Joyce (1882-1941)
poet, teacher, journalist, literary critic
- University College Dublin, Clongowes Wood College
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, critic, literary scholar
- Tuskegee University
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
playwright, translator, poet, painter, literary critic
- University of Nottingham, University of London
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852)
playwright, historian, literary critic, teacher, poet, opinion journalist
- Imperial St. Petersburg University
Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
poet, playwright, literary critic
- Christ's Hospital
Helen Vendler (1933-2024)
literary critic, poet, journalist, scholar of English
- Emmanuel College, Harvard University