Alan Tansman is an American Japanologist. He is a professor of Japanese studies at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

Tansman received his B.A. from Columbia University in East Asian Studies,^[2] M.S.J. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University in Japanese literature.^[1] He was the Chair of Berkeley's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.^[3] Tansman is considered an expert in his field of Japanese literature and culture, and has written extensively about Japanese fascism.^[4][5]

Tansman was a former co-chair of the editorial board of Representations, an interdisciplinary journal in the humanities published quarterly by the University of California Press.^[6] He was also a former director of Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities.^[7][8]

In 2019, he was suspended by Berkeley for a two-year term after being accused of sexual harassment by a former student.^[9][10]