Gorgias of Leontini (ca. 483-376 B.C.E.) --
Plato (ca. 427-ca. 347 B.C.E.) --
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E) --
Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) --
Longinus (first century C.E.) --
Augustine of Hippo (354-430) --
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204) --
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) --
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) --
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) --
Christine de Pizan (ca. 1365-ca.1429) --
Joachim du Bellay (ca.1522-1560) --
Giacopo Mazzoni (1548-1598) --
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) --
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) --
John Dryden (1631-1700) --
Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) --
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) --
Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) --
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) --
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) --
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) --
David Hume (1711-1776) --
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) --
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) --
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) --
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) --
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) --
Germaine Necker de Staël (1766-1817) --
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) --
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) --
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) --
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) --
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) --
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) --
Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) --
Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) --
Matthew Arnold ((1822-1888) --
Walter Pater (1839-1894) --
Henry James (1843-1916) --
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) --
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) --
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) --
Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) --
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) --
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) --
György Lukács (1885-1971) --
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) --
John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) --
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) --
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) --
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) --
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) --
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) --
Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895-1975) --
Max Horkheimer (1895-1973) and Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969) --
F.R. Leavis (1895-1978) --
Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) --
Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) --
Leo Strauss (1899-1973) --
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) --
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) --
Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) --
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) --
Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) --
William K. Wimsatt Jr. (1907-1975) and Monroe C. Beardsley (1915-1985) --
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) --
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) --
J.L. Austin (1911-1960) --
Northrop Frye (1912-1991) --
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) --
Louis Althusser (1918-1990) --
Paul de Man (1919-1983) --
C.D. Narasimhaiah (1921-2005) --
Raymond Williams (1921-1988) --
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) --
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and Félix Guattari (1930-1992) --
Jean-François Lyotard (1924-1998) --
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) --
Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007) --
Hayden White (1928-2018) --
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) --
Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) --
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) --
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) --
Adūnīs (b. ca. 1930) --
Harold Bloom (b. 1930) --
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) --
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) --
Li Zehou (b. 1930) --
Toni Morrison (b. 1931) --
Richard Ohmann (b. 1931) --
Stuart Hall (1932-2014) --
Susan Sontag (1933-2004) --
Frederic Jameson (b. 1934) --
David Harvey (b. 1935) --
Edward W. Said (1935-2003) --
Monique Wittig (1935-2003) --
Benedict Anderson (1936-2015) --
Sandra M. Gilbert (b. 1936) and Susan Gubar (b. 1944) --
E. Ann Kaplan (b. 1936) --
Hélèn Cixous (b. 1937) --
Gerald Graff (b. 1937) --
Stanley E. Fish (b. 1938) --
Ngugi Wă Thiong'o (b. 1938), Taban Lo Liyong (b. 1939), and Henry Owuor-Anyumba (1933-1992) --
Tzvetan Todorov (1939-2017) --
Karatani Kōjin (b. 1941) --
Julia Kristeva (b. 1941) --
Laura Mulvey (b. 1941) --
Giorgio Agamben (b. 1942) --
Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) --
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942) --
Terry Eagleton (b. 1943) --
Stephen J. Greenblatt (b. 1943) --
Donna Haraway (b. 1944) --
N. Katherine Hayles (b. 1943) --
Susan Bordo (b. 1947) --
Bruno Latour (b. 1947) --
Martha C. Nussbaum (b. 1947) --
Homi K. Bhabha (b. 1949) --
Lennard J. Davis (b. 1949) --
Gayle Rubin (b. 1949) --
Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) --
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (b. 1950) --
Franco Moretti (b. 1950) --
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) --
Hamid Dabashi (b. 1951) --
Dick Hebdige (b. 1951) --
Bell Hooks (b. Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952) --
Rosi Braidotti (b. 1954) --
Rob Nixon (b. 1954) --
Judith Butler (b. 1956) --
Paul Gilroy (b. 1956) --
Andrew Ross (b. 1956) --
Jane Bennett (b. 1957) --
Lauren Berlant (b. 1957) and Michael Warner (b. 1958) --
Rey Chow (b. 1957) --
Kenneth W. Warren (b. 1957) --
Kelly Oliver (b. 1958) --
Michael Hardt (b. 1960) and Antonio Negri (b. 1933) --
Judith Jack Halberstam (b. 1961) --
David Herman (b. 1962) --
Marc Bousquet (b. 1963) --
Mark McGurl (b. 1966) --
Stephen Best (b. 1969) and Sharon Marcus (b. 1966) --
Timothy Morton (b. 1968) --
Alondra Nelson (b. 1968) --
Sianne Ngai (b. 1971) --
Ian Bogost (b. 1976).