Matthew Feldman (born 1977) is an Anglo-American historian, literary critic and political scientist.^[1] As Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas at Teesside University, and Professorial Fellow at the University of York, Feldman specializes in fascism and the far right in Europe and the United States. He consults on neo-Nazi terrorism, hate crimes and radical right extremism for Academic Consulting Services.^[2][3][4][5]

Feldman is the author of more than a dozen books on political extremism, and a dozen books that relate to the leading modernist writers Ezra Pound and Samuel Beckett, including Politics, Intellectuals and Faith (2020); Falsifying Beckett (2015); Ezra Pound's Fascist Propaganda, 1935–1945 (2013); and Beckett's Books (2006). Feldman is currently at work on a global history of fascism.

Born in California, Feldman was awarded a BA in modern history and English in 1999, an MA in the history of fascism in 2000, and a PhD in 2004 for a thesis entitled "Sourcing 'Aporetics': An Empirical Study on Philosophical Influences in the Development of Samuel Beckett's Writings". All his degrees were completed at Oxford Brookes University.^[1][6]

After teaching history part-time at Oxford Brookes and the University of Northampton, Feldman was appointed in 2008 as senior lecturer in 20th-century history at Northampton. In 2012 he became Reader in Contemporary History at Teesside and in June 2014 Professor in the Modern History of Ideas.^[6] As of 2017 he was co-director of Teesside's Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies (CFAPS).^[7] Since 2018, Feldman has been Director of Academic Consulting Services.

In addition to his studies of Pound and Beckett, Feldman's activities as a literary critic include co-editing two series from Bloomsbury Publishing: Historicizing Modernism, along with Erik Tonning and David Tucker ; and Modernist Archives, with Erik Tonning and Natasha Periyan.

Feldman's historical work includes studies of historical fascism and the far right, and also pays attention to the politics of language in the rhetoric of the radical right^[8] and in Holocaust denial.^[9]

Feldman has also undertaken more public work, including media appearances and op-eds, and featured as a keynote or featured speaker on the far right in several venues.^[10][11] Feldman has worked for the UK's National Expert Witness Agency, authoring 22 expert reports and appearing as witness in 20 trials.^[12]