Elliot Neaman is a professor of European intellectual history at the University of San Francisco. His scholarship focuses on post-World War II German society, including, on the right, the politics of literature after Nazism and on the left, the trajectory of youth revolts from reform to extremism. He is the author of A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism (1999) and Free Radicals: Agitators, Hippies, Urban Guerrillas, and Germany's Youth Revolt of the 1960s and 1970s (2016). His work engages themes of fascism, right-wing thought, terrorism and memory politics in Germany and Europe.

He has edited and introduced several translations of Ernst Jünger’s works and contributed to volumes on the radical right, including Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy. Neaman is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies (UC Berkeley). His Selected Writings: A Journey in Intellectual History (1988–2025) is forthcoming in the “Best of the Humanities” series from Columbia University Press.