
Curriculum Vitae
BIOGRAPHY
Farid Mohammadi serves as a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Malaya, where he instructs courses in 19th-century British Literature and Culture, Ecocriticism, Travel Narratives, Literature Pedagogy, and Research Methodologies. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Malaya, Malaysia. His research and publications primarily engage with topics related to J.R.R. Tolkien, environmental aesthetics, Philosophy of Art, Literary Theory, Critical Theory, and Continental Philosophy.
Farid is the author of over 20 articles and reviews, with both published and forthcoming contributions to Web of Science’s A&HCI, SCI, and SSCI journals. His manuscripts have been featured in several esteemed journals, including Literature Compass (Wiley), The Explicator (Taylor & Francis), The Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Wiley), Victorian Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies (Johns Hopkins University Press), International Feminist Journal of Politics (Taylor & Francis), Sociology of Health & Illness (Wiley), SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English (University of Malaya), Victoriographies: A Journal of the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press), Folklore (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor & Francis), and Journal of Inklings Studies (Edinburgh University Press).
Since 2023, Farid has held the position of Deputy Editor at SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, a journal affiliated with the University of Malaya.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
- PHD IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, (Kesusasteraan Bahasa Inggeris)Universiti Malaya (UM)
- Master of Arts (English Language & Literature), (ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)Islamic Azad University, Iran
- Bachelor's Degree (English Language & Literature), (ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE)Islamic Azad University, Iran
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
- Coordinator01 Jun 2024 - 01 Jun 2026 (University Malaya)
- Supervisor01 Jan 2024 - 01 Mar 2026 (Department)
- Curriculum Review01 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024 (Department)
- Curriculum Review01 Jan 2024 - 30 Nov 2024 (Department)
- Menjalankan Fungsi Sebagai Ketua Jabatan25 Nov 2024 - 25 Nov 2024 (Department)
- Served as SARE's Journal Manager01 Dec 2023 - 31 Mar 2024 (Department)
MEMBERSHIPS
- ACTING AS THE DEPUTY EDITOR IN CHIEF OF SARE: SOUTHEAST ASIAN REVIEW OF ENGLISH, ASSOCIATE EDITOR2024 to 2024 (University)
PUBLICATIONS
Article in Journal
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Mohammadi, Farid (2025). "In the Black Abyss There Appeared a Single Eye": The Gaze and Self-Fragmentation in The Lord of the Rings, CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION. . doi:10.1080/00111619.2025.2482937
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Mohammadi, Farid (2025). A Malaysian ecocriticism reader: Considerations of nature, culture, place, and identities, JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING. . doi:10.1080/17449855.2025.2464438
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Mohammadi, Farid (2025). The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art, BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS. . doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayae060
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Mohammadi, Farid; Heise, Ursula K.; Pham, Chi P. (2025). Environment and narrative in Vietnam, JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING. . doi:10.1080/17449855.2025.2464439
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Mohammadi, Farid (2024). "It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal": A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, EXPLICATOR. . doi:10.1080/00144940.2024.2411316
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Mohammadi, Farid (2024). Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain, JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES. . doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12970
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Mohammadi, Farid (2024). Feminist Art in Resistance: Aesthetics, Methods, and Politics of Art in Turkey, INTERNATIONAL FEMINIST JOURNAL OF POLITICS. . doi:10.1080/14616742.2024.2376150
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Mohammadi, Farid (2024). The pandemic divide: How COVID increased inequality in America, SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS. . doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13787
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Mohammadi, Farid (2022). Beyond environmental imagination: Revisiting J.R.R. Tolkien's literary landscapes in The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), LITERATURE COMPASS. 19(8). doi:10.1111/lic3.12677
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Mohammadi, Farid (2025). Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy, VICTORIOGRAPHIES-A JOURNAL OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITING 1790-1914. 15(1), 97-99. doi:10.3366/vic.2025.0561
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Mohammadi, Farid (2024). Ceramics in the Victorian Era: Meanings and Metaphors in Painting and Literature, VICTORIAN REVIEW-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF VICTORIAN STUDIES. 49(2). doi:10.1353/vcr.2024.a936095
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Mohammadi, F. (2021). Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Worldbuilding in Murasaki's The Tale of Genji and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Sare-Southeast Asian Review of English, 58(1), 5-17.
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Mohammadi F. (2024). It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal : A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings, Explicator. . doi:10.1080/00144940.2024.2411316
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Mohammadi F. (2022). Beyond environmental imagination: Revisiting J.R.R. Tolkien's literary landscapes in The Lord of the Rings (1954 1955), Literature Compass. 19(8). doi:10.1111/lic3.12677
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Mohammadi, F. (2021). Phenomenology, aesthetics, and worldbuilding in murasaki s the tale of genji and tolkien s the lord of the rings. SARE, 58(1), 5-17.
RESEARCH PROJECT
University
- 2024 - 2025, University GrantJohn Clare and the Emergence of Environmental Awareness and Animal Ethics in Romantic Literature ( Principal Investigator(PI))
PAPER PRESENTED
ORAL PRESENTER
- ArtScience as a Pathway to Sustainability: Reimagining Knowledge through Contemporary Art and Cultural Initiatives in Southeast Asia, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENHANCING ART SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF SUSTAINABILITY: ARTSCIENCE SOLUTIONS FOR PLANETARY HEALTH ICASAS 24, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Universiti Malaya (International) (12 Jun 2024 - 13 Jun 2024)
- Contemporary Art and Cultural Initiatives: Decolonizing Knowledge in Southeast Asia, International Seminar Creating Knowledge in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities at Xiamen University Malaysia, Xiamen University Malaysia (International) (27 Apr 2024 - 28 Aug 2024)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
- Globalization, Inclusion and Diversity in English Studies, 2nd International Conference GIDES 2025, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of English, University of Wah (International) (13 Jan 2025 - 14 Jan 2025)
ACADEMIC/ PROF. SERVICES
Evaluation
- (2024) Served as An Internal Examiner., University, (Reviewer)
- (2024) Served as An Internal Examiner., University, (Reviewer)
- (2024) Served as An Internal Examiner., University, (Reviewer)
- (2024) Serve as a Peer Reviewer for The Review of Education Journal., International, (Reviewer)
SUPERVISION
Under Graduate Students
- (2024) The Treatment of Animals as Commodities in the Capitalist Dystopia of Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’
- (2024) The Dual Faces of Power: Tension Between Motherhood and Femme Fatale in Cersei Lannister’s Arc in Season 5 of Game of Thrones
- (2024) “Breaking the wheel”: A female analysis of power and gender in HBO’s Games of Thrones
- (2024) INTERNALISED MISOGYNY IN NARRATIVES OF GIRLHOOD: A STUDY THROUGH SELECTED SHORT STORIES OF CINDERELLA ADAPTATIONS AND SONGS FROM DOLLY PARTON’S JOLENE AND OLIVIA RODRIGO’S AND LACY
- (2024) Feminism in South Korea: Kim Jiyoung, Born in 1982 as a Feminist Literary Text
- (2024) Beyond The Binary: Exploring Gender Fluidity and Female Archetypes in HBO's Game of Thrones
- (2024) Industrial Training, NUR SYADZA NASHUHA BINTI MOHD FADLI
Postgraduate Student
- (2024) The Orient is Alive: post 9/11 World, FARAH NAZEER
- (2024) Bodies, Space, and Technology: A Posthuman Reading of Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon, XIANG SHANSHAN
- (2024) Fantasy Worldbuilding in Terry Pratchett's City Watch Novels as Allegory for the Progressive Development of Modern Societies, KONG ZHI SHONG
- (2024) Reimagining Female Heroism in Modern Fantasy Fiction, NIK NUR ATHIRAH BINTI NIK
TEACHING
Master
- (2024) AOA7021 - Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- (2024) AMX7001 - Research Methodology
Bachelor
- (2024) AIC2020 - Exploring Travel Literature
- (2024) AIC4002 - Industrial Training
- (2024) AIC2010 - Journeys in Travel Literature
- (2024) AIC2013 - Literature and The Environment
- (2024) AIC3020 - Research Project I
- (2024) AIC3021 - Research Project Ii
- (2024) AIC2005 - Topics in The Nineteenth Century
- (2024) AIC1008 - Writing About Literature Ii
- (2023) PIB2003 - Writing Skills for Textual Analysis