Alain Bresson (born 1949) is a French classicist.
Bresson completed a Doctorat d'État at the University of Franche-Comté in 1994,[1][2] and began his teaching career at the University of Bordeaux.
[3] From 2008,[3] he taught at the University of Chicago, where he held the Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professorship.
[1][2] From 2010 to 2011, Bresson was the Marta Sutton Weeks Faculty Fellow at Stanford University.
[4] In 2018, Bresson received a Guggenheim fellowship.