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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
philosopher, botanist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, literary, autobiographer, music theorist, pedagogue, naturalist, playwright, encyclopédistes, correspondent, political scientist, essayist, music critic
Sandra Cisneros (born 1954)
poet, essayist, teacher, arts administrator
- Loyola University Chicago, University of Chicago
James Joyce (1882-1941)
poet, teacher, journalist, literary critic
- University College Dublin, Clongowes Wood College
Julia Cameron (born 1948)
film director, poet, pedagogue, journalist
- Fordham University
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
linguist, film director, cricketer, poet, playwright, translator, teacher, intellectual, French resistance fighter, video artist
- Trinity College Dublin
Colm Tóibín (born 1955)
poet, journalist, playwright, literary critic, teacher, essayist
- University College Dublin, St Peter's College, Wexford
Bessie Emery Head (1937-1986)
journalist, teacher
- International Writing Program
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