Farid Mohammadi is a Lecturer at the University of Malaya whose research spans nineteenth-century British literature, aesthetics, critical theory, and J. R. R. Tolkien studies. His work engages Romantic and Victorian aesthetic traditions, environmental humanities, and modern literary theory, with particular emphasis on myth, perception, landscape, and the philosophical dimensions of literary form. He received his PhD from the University of Malaya, where his dissertation examined Tolkien’s literary landscapes.

His scholarship has appeared in journals including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, Teaching in Higher Education, The Explicator, Literature Compass, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Victorian Review, Victoriographies, Journal of Inklings Studies, and Journal of Postcolonial Writing. He is Associate Editor of The Explicator (Taylor & Francis) and also Associate Editor of the English Department's SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English.

Farid has also contributed two chapters to Critical Insights: J.R.R. Tolkien (Salem Press, 2026), and his article “‘In the Black Abyss There Appeared a Single Eye’: The Gaze and Self-Fragmentation in The Lord of the Rings” is shortlisted for the 2026 Tolkien Society (UK) Award for Best Article. He is currently completing a monograph on Tolkien and philosophy.