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Judith Butler (born 1956)
philosopher, sociologist, literary critic, women's rights activist, journalist, art theorist, gender theorist, social scientist
- Yale University
Terry Eagleton (born 1943)
literary critic, literary historian, literary theorist, literary scholar, man of letters
- University of Cambridge
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
translator, poet, literary critic, women's rights activist, journalist
- Harvard University, Columbia University
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
philosopher, pedagogue, sociologist, mathematician, literary critic, opinion journalist, politician, poet, translator, essayist
- Universidad Central, University of Deusto
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
- University of Pennsylvania, Hamilton College
Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
philosopher, composer, musicologist, sociologist, literary critic, music critic, aphorist, pianist, academic, aesthetician
- University of Oxford, Goethe University Frankfurt
Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950)
poet, translator, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, professor, politician, civil servant, revolutionary, yogi, principal, editor, Vice-principal
- St Paul's School, University of Cambridge
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
poet, diplomat, essayist, literary critic, journalist, pedagogue, publisher
- Harvard Law School, Harvard College