{{Infobox academic | name = | birth_date = | death_date = | discipline = Japanese culture | education = {{Plain list| * Columbia University (BA, MSJ) * Yale University (PhD) }} | image = | workplaces = {{Plain list| * University of California, Berkeley }} | children = | influences = | doctoral_students = | spouse = | awards = }}'''Alan Tansman''' is an American Japanologist. He is a professor of Japanese studies at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Tansman Alan |url=https://ealc.berkeley.edu/people/tansman-alan |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=ealc.berkeley.edu}}</ref>
== Biography == Tansman received his B.A. from Columbia University in East Asian Studies,<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_051 |title=Columbia College Today |date=October 2009 |location=New York, N.Y. |publisher=Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development}}</ref> M.S.J. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University in Japanese literature.<ref name=":0" /> He was the Chair of Berkeley's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cultural Responses to Atrocity—interview with Alan Tansman |url=https://kennedy.byu.edu/cultural-responses-to-atrocity-interview-with-alan-tansman/ |access-date=2022-05-14 |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519012644/https://kennedy.byu.edu/cultural-responses-to-atrocity-interview-with-alan-tansman/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Tansman is considered an expert in his field of Japanese literature and culture, and has written extensively about Japanese fascism.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-02-20 |title=UC Berkeley suspends professor accused of sexual harassment |url=https://apnews.com/article/935f33ddcb4143f0becc86bd5293ae06 |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Asimov |first=Nanette |date=2019-02-20 |title=UC Berkeley suspends prominent professor accused of sexual harassment |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/UC-Berkeley-suspends-prominent-professor-accused-13629086.php |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=San Francisco Chronicle |language=en-US}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2011 |title=Front Matter |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2011.116.1.fm |journal=Representations |volume=116 |issue=1 |doi=10.1525/rep.2011.116.1.fm |jstor=10.1525/rep.2011.116.1.fm |issn=0734-6018|url-access=subscription }}</ref> He was also a former director of Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alan Tansman Appointed New Director of the Townsend Center {{!}} Townsend Center for the Humanities |url=https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/blog/alan-tansman-appointed-new-director-townsend-center |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=townsendcenter.berkeley.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-02-04 |title=Townsend Center: incubating inspiration in the humanities |url=https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/townsend-center-incubating-inspiration-humanities |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=University of California |language=en}}</ref>
In 2019, he was suspended by Berkeley for a two-year term after being accused of sexual harassment by a former student.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Andreana |last=Chou |date=2019-02-22 |title=UC Berkeley professor suspended over sexual harassment allegations |url=https://www.dailycal.org/2019/02/21/campus-professor-suspended-over-sexual-harassment-allegations/ |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=The Daily Californian |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=UC Berkeley Suspends Professor Accused of Sexual Harassment |url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/uc-berkeley-suspends-professor-accused-of-sexual-harassment/3464/ |access-date=2022-05-14 |website=NBC Bay Area |language=en-US}}</ref>
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