Curriculum Vitae

DR. FARID MOHAMMADI

Lecturer
  • Department of English
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • faridm
  • 0379675595

BIOGRAPHY

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.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

  • FOLKLORE
    Humanities, Literary Studies, Literature
  • LITERARY CRITICISM
    Humanities, Literary Studies, Literature
  • POPULAR LITERATURE (INCLUDING INDIE NOVELS, ROMANCE NOVELS, CHICK LIT, VISUAL LITERATURE AND GRAPHIC NOVELS)
    Humanities, Literary Studies, Literature
  • OTHER LITERATURE N.E.C
    Humanities, Literary Studies, Literature
  • AESTHETICS
    Humanities, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy
  • APPLIED ETHICS (INCLUDING BIOETHICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS)
    Humanities, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy
  • HERMENEUTIC THEORY
    Humanities, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy
  • PHENOMENOLOGY
    Humanities, Philosophical Studies, Philosophy

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

  • Faculty-appointed member of the Artificial Intelligence Committee responsible for planning and supporting AI curriculum and initiatives (2025–2027).
    01 Jun 2025 - 31 Dec 2027 (Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)
  • Coordinator, Lloyd Fernando Seminar Series (LFSS)
    01 Apr 2025 - 31 Dec 2026 (Department)
  • Coordinator
    01 Jun 2024 - 01 Jun 2026 (University Malaya)
  • Supervisor
    01 Jan 2024 - 01 Mar 2026 (Department)
  • Committee Members
    08 Dec 2025 - 08 Jan 2026 (Department)
  • Appointed as Department Supervisor (Pengawas Jabatan Inggeris) during HOD’s leave.
    23 Oct 2025 - 24 Oct 2025 (Department)
  • Curriculum Review
    01 Jan 2024 - 31 Dec 2024 (Department)
  • Curriculum Review
    01 Jan 2024 - 30 Nov 2024 (Department)
  • Menjalankan Fungsi Sebagai Ketua Jabatan
    25 Nov 2024 - 25 Nov 2024 (Department)
  • Served as SARE's Journal Manager
    01 Dec 2023 - 31 Mar 2024 (Department)

MEMBERSHIPS

  • SERVING AS AN ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE WEB OF SCIENCE INDEXED JOURNAL THE EXPLICATOR., ASSOCIATE EDITOR
    2025 to present (International)
  • SERVING AS AN ASSOCIATE EDITOR OF THE SCOPUS-INDEXED JOURNAL SARE: SOUTHEAST ASIAN REVIEW OF ENGLISH., EDITORIAL BOARD
    2023 to present (University)

PUBLICATIONS

Article in Journal
WoS
  1. Mohammadi, Farid (2026). "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
  2. Mohammadi, Farid (2026). "Of Him the Harpers Sadly Sing": Fragmentary Ballad Diction and Transmission in The Lord of the Rings, ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS. . doi:10.1080/0895769X.2026.2636524
  3. Mohammadi, Farid (2025). "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
  4. Mohammadi, Farid (2025). A Malaysian ecocriticism reader: Considerations of nature, culture, place, and identities, JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING. . doi:10.1080/17449855.2025.2464438
  5. Mohammadi, Farid (2025). Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien's Mythic Historiography, EXPLICATOR. . doi:10.1080/00144940.2025.2494024
  6. Mohammadi, Farid (2025). Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women's Writing, CONTEMPORARY WOMENS WRITING. 19. doi:10.1093/cww/vpaf021
  7. Mohammadi, Farid (2025). Performative Kingship: Aragorn's 'I' In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS. . doi:10.1080/0895769X.2025.2544968
  8. Mohammadi, Farid (2025). The Philosophical Power of Fairy Tales from Around the World: An Ocean of Stories, FOLKLORE. . doi:10.1080/0015587X.2025.2477362
  9. Mohammadi, Farid (2025). The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art, BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS. . doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayae060
  10. Mohammadi, Farid (2025). The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM. . doi:10.1093/jaac/kpaf031
  11. Mohammadi, Farid; Heise, Ursula K.; Pham, Chi P. (2025). Environment and narrative in Vietnam, JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING. . doi:10.1080/17449855.2025.2464439
  12. Mohammadi, Farid (2024). Eighteenth-Century Engravings and Visual History in Britain, JOURNAL FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES. . doi:10.1111/1754-0208.12970
  13. 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
  14. Mohammadi, Farid (2024). The pandemic divide: How COVID increased inequality in America, SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH & ILLNESS. . doi:10.1111/1467-9566.13787
  15. 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
ESCI
  1. Mohammadi, Farid (2026). Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and Poetry, VICTORIOGRAPHIES-A JOURNAL OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY WRITING 1790-1914. 16(1), 112-114. doi:10.3366/vic.2026.0597
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
Scopus
  1. Mohammadi F. (2026). Of Him the Harpers Sadly Sing : Fragmentary Ballad Diction and Transmission in The Lord of the Rings, ANQ Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews. . doi:10.1080/0895769X.2026.2636524
  2. Mohammadi F. (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
  3. Mohammadi F. (2025). 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
  4. Mohammadi F. (2025). Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien s Mythic Historiography, Explicator. . doi:10.1080/00144940.2025.2494024
  5. Mohammadi F. (2025). Performative Kingship: Aragorn s I In Tolkien s The Lord of the Rings, ANQ Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews. . doi:10.1080/0895769X.2025.2544968
  6. 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
  7. 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 INTEREST

  • J.R.R. Tolkien Studies (Fantasy Literature, World Building, Mythology)
  • 19th Century British Literature & Culture (Aesthetics of the Sublime, the Picturesque, and the Beautiful)
  • Philosophical Aesthetics (Aesthetic Creation Theories)
  • Environmental Humanities (Literary Space, Place, Atmosphere, and Landscape)
  • Literature & Philosophy (Philosophical Dimensions of Literary Creations)
  • Travel Narratives (Literary Journeys)
  • Psychoanalytic Theory (Understanding Human Behavior, Cultural Analysis, Lacan)
  • Research Methodologies in the Arts and Humanities (Arts-Based Research, Literary Theory and Criticism, Critical Theory, Narrative Inquiry)

RESEARCH PROJECT

National
  1. 2025 - 2026, UM Living Labs @ UMSDC
    MAPPING SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH A CHILD-CENTRED APPROACH: EXPLORING UNIVERSITI MALAYA?S ECO CAMPUS ( Co-Researcher)
University
  1. 2024 - 2026, University Grant
    John Clare And The Emergence Of Environmental Awareness And Animal Ethics In Romantic Literature ( Principal Investigator(PI))

PAPER PRESENTED

ORAL PRESENTER
  1. Whispers of the Past: Hybridity and Diaspora in Malaysian Poetic Imagination, Forum on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Malaysia, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), Universiti Malaya & Faculty of Creative Arts (FCA), Universiti Malaya in collaboration with NUS College, Singapore (International) (13 Jun 2025 - 13 Jun 2025)
  2. 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)
  3. 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
  1. 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
  1. (2025) Served as a Peer Reviewer for The Explicator., International, (Reviewer)
  2. (2025) Served as a Peer Reviewer for The Explicator., International, (Reviewer)
  3. (2025) Served as a Peer Reviewer for The Explicator., International, (Reviewer)
  4. (2025) Served as a Peer Reviewer for The Explicator., International, (Reviewer)
  5. (2025) Served as a Peer Reviewer for The Explicator., International, (Reviewer)
  6. (2025) Served as An Internal Examiner of a Master Dissertation., University, (Internal Examiner)
  7. (2025) Served as a Peer Reviewer for The Explicator., International, (Reviewer)
  8. (2025) Served as An Examiner of a PhD Candidate's Proposal Defense., University, (Internal Examiner)
  9. (2025) Served as An Internal Examiner of a Master Dissertation., University, (Internal Examiner)
  10. (2025) Internal Examination of Master Dissertation: a Posthumanist Reading of Horizon Zero Dawn for Candidate Celine Woon Sue Lin (17124418/2), University, (Internal Examiner)
  11. (2025) I Served as a Peer Reviewer for The Explicator., International, (Reviewer)
  12. (2025) Served as An Internal Examiner of a Master Dissertation., University, (Internal Examiner)
  13. (2025) Served as An Internal Examiner of a Master Dissertation., University, (Internal Examiner)
  14. (2025) Served as An Internal Examiner of a Master Dissertation., University, (Internal Examiner)
  15. (2025) Served as An Internal Examiner of a Master Dissertation., University, (Internal Examiner)
  16. (2025) I Served as a Peer Reviewer for The Explicator., International, (Reviewer)
  17. (2024) Served as An Internal Examiner., University, (Reviewer)
  18. (2024) Served as An Internal Examiner., University, (Reviewer)
  19. (2024) Served as An Internal Examiner., University, (Reviewer)
  20. (2024) Serve as a Peer Reviewer for The Review of Education Journal., International, (Reviewer)
Contribution to external organisation
  1. (2026) Associate Editor of Routledge’s The Explicator, International, (Technical Advisor)
  2. (2025) Moderator for Keynote Session: “human Dimensions in The Age of Ai”, University, (Resource Person)

SUPERVISION

Under Graduate Students
  1. (2024) The Treatment of Animals as Commodities in the Capitalist Dystopia of Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’
  2. (2024) The Dual Faces of Power: Tension Between Motherhood and Femme Fatale in Cersei Lannister’s Arc in Season 5 of Game of Thrones
  3. (2024) “Breaking the wheel”: A female analysis of power and gender in HBO’s Games of Thrones
  4. (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
  5. (2024) Feminism in South Korea: Kim Jiyoung, Born in 1982 as a Feminist Literary Text
  6. (2024) Beyond The Binary: Exploring Gender Fluidity and Female Archetypes in HBO's Game of Thrones
  7. (2024) Industrial Training, NUR SYADZA NASHUHA BINTI MOHD FADLI
Postgraduate Student
  1. (2025) The Orient is Alive: post 9/11 World, FARAH NAZEER
  2. (2025) Bodies, Space, and Technology: A Posthuman Reading of Richard Morgan's Altered Carbon, XIANG SHANSHAN
  3. (2025) Fantasy Worldbuilding in Terry Pratchett's City Watch Novels as Allegory for the Progressive Development of Modern Societies, KONG ZHI SHONG
  4. (2025) Nonhuman Agency and Narrative Form in The Hobbit and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, JADE OLIVIA MARIE JAFFRY
  5. (2025) Homecoming as Ethical Culmination: Agape and Moral Transformation in Tolkien and Lewis, PRISCILLA DINIESHA A/P PICHAYMUTHU
  6. (2025) Reimagining Female Heroism in Modern Fantasy Fiction, NIK NUR ATHIRAH BINTI NIK

TEACHING

Master
  1. (2024) AOA7021 - Nineteenth-century British Literature
  2. (2024) AMX7001 - Research Methodology
Bachelor
  1. (2024) AIC2020 - Exploring Travel Literature
  2. (2024) AIC4002 - Industrial Training
  3. (2024) AIC2010 - Journeys in Travel Literature
  4. (2024) AIC2013 - Literature and The Environment
  5. (2024) AIC3020 - Research Project I
  6. (2024) AIC3021 - Research Project Ii
  7. (2024) AIC2005 - Topics in The Nineteenth Century
  8. (2024) AIC1008 - Writing About Literature Ii
  9. (2023) PIB2003 - Writing Skills for Textual Analysis
Full-Time Equivalent (FTE)
  1. (2025) AIC2005 - Topics in The Nineteenth Century
  2. (2025) AIC2010 - Journeys in Travel Literature
  3. (2026) AIC2013 - Literature and The Environment
  4. (2025) AIC2020 - Exploring Travel Literature
  5. (2026) AIC3019 - Nineteenth Century British Literature and Culture
  6. (2025) AMX7001 - Research Methodology
  7. (2026) AMX7001 - Research Methodology
  8. (2026) AOA7021 - Nineteenth-century British Literature
  9. (2025) AVX8001 - Research Methodology
  10. (2026) AVX8001 - Research Methodology