Bryan W. Van Norden is an American translator of Chinese philosophical texts and scholar of Chinese and comparative philosophy. He has spent his career studying and translating works from the Chinese philosophical tradition. Van Norden has been a long-standing member of the philosophy faculty at Vassar College in the United States, where he has taught for twenty-five years. At Vassar, he holds the James Monroe Taylor Chair in Philosophy. From 2017 to 2020, he served as the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore, bringing his expertise to an international academic community.