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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]