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Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
literary historian, professor, literary critic, journalist, literary theorist
- Yale University, Cornell University
Terry Eagleton (born 1943)
literary critic, literary historian, literary theorist, literary scholar, man of letters
- University of Cambridge
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, critic, literary scholar
- Tuskegee University
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998)
philosopher, philologist, linguist, epistemologist, sociologist, literary theorist, literary critic, teacher
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, University of Paris
Walter Jens (1923-2013)
rhetorician, translator, literary historian, literary critic, playwright, philologist, critic, Germanist, literary scholar, librettist
- University of Tübingen, University of Freiburg
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)
jurist, lexicographer, anthropologist, linguist, philologist, mythologist, librarian, translator, law librarian, literary scholar, legal historian, secretary of legation, poet lawyer, mythographer, politician, collector of fairy tales, historian
- University of Marburg
Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
linguist, literary scholar, pedagogue, historian, critic, teacher, philologist
- Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University, College of Philosophy of the Prague German University
Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)
lexicographer, anthropologist, librarian, law librarian, pedagogue, linguist, literary scholar, Germanist, jurist, mythographer, collector of fairy tales, philologist
- University of Marburg, Humboldt University of Berlin