William Christian Hackett (born 1979) is an American Catholic philosopher. He is also a translator, involved in the reception of French Phenomenology into English, and a novelist.
His novel Outside the Gates retells the true story of existentialist philosopher Jean Wahl's escape from Drancy Internment Camp and underground flight to the free zone during the German Occupation of France in 1941. Hackett is the translator of Wahl's Human Existence and Transcendence, published in 1944 after his escape, that is partially retold by the novel.
