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Benjamin Harshav (1928-2015)
translator, literary theorist, literary scholar, literary, Hebraist
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Yale University
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)
philosopher, poet, employee of a public institution, mathematician, physicist, literary theorist
- Faculty of Arts of Paris
Vijay Mishra (born 1945)
literary scholar, cultural studies scholar, scholar of English, man of letters
- Lelean Memorial School, Victoria University of Wellington
Georg Lukács (1885-1971)
philosopher, politician, sociologist, literary critic, art historian, philosopher of culture, literary historian, literary scholar
- Humboldt University of Berlin, Eötvös Loránd University
Gérard Genette (1930-2018)
literary critic, literary theorist, literary historian, opinion journalist
- École Normale Supérieure, Faculty of Arts of Paris
William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913)
literary scholar, bibliographer, jurist
- Merchant Taylors' School
Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865-1941)
poet, literary critic, philosopher, biographer, literary scholar, art historian
- Saint Petersburg State University
Leah Goldberg (1911-1970)
poet, pedagogue, translator, playwright, literary critic, literary editor, literary theorist, opinion journalist
- Vytautas Magnus University, Humboldt University of Berlin