| Farid Mohammadi | |
|---|---|
| Biographical Information | |
| Education | Ph.D. |
| Occupation | Lecturer in 19th-Century British Literature & Culture |
| Website | |
Farid Mohammadi is a Lecturer at the University of Malaya whose research spans nineteenth-century British literature, philosophical 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, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 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).
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.
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Articles, Reviews, & Book Chapters
- 2026: “Fellowship of the Imagination: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield in the Inklings Circle "
- "Tolkien, Lewis, and Barfield"
- 2026: “From Mythopoeia to Middle-earth: The Roots of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium "
- "Mythopoeia, Sub-creation, and The Silmarillion"
- 2026: “Of Him the Harpers Sadly Sing”: Fragmentary Ballad Diction and Transmission in The Lord of the Rings"
- "Gil-galad, Ballad, and Weathertop"
- 2026: From Debate to Dialogue: Teaching Contested Canons Through Dialogic Literary Argumentation"
- "How to teach J.R.R. Tolkien"
- 2025: Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality in Tolkien’s Mythic Historiography"
- "Aragorn, Sovereignty, and Mortality"
- 2025: Performative Kingship: Aragorn’s ‘I’ In Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings"
- "Performative Kingship"
- 2025: Anahit Behrooz, Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in JRR Tolkien's Cartographies"
- "Mapping Middle-earth"
- 2025: “In the Black Abyss There Appeared a Single Eye”: The Gaze and Self-Fragmentation in The Lord of the Rings"
- "Galadriel’s Mirror through a Lacanian lens "
- 2024: “It Shall Be Set in Imperishable Crystal”: A Representation of Hair Memorabilia in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings"
- "Material culture in the Middle-earth"
- 2022: "Beyond environmental imagination: Revisiting J.R.R. Tolkien's literary landscapes in The Lord of the Rings"
- "Tolkien's depiction of the Sublime"
- 2021: "Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Worldbuilding in Murasaki's Tale of Genji and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
- "A Tale that Grew in the Telling"
- 2014: The Manipulative Discourse of Gandalf
- "The Green Man, the Green Knight, and Treebeard: Scholarship and Invention in Tolkien's Fiction"
- 2013: "In search of the Holy Presence of the Blessed Mary in Tolkien’s Middle-earth In search of the Holy Presence of the Blessed Mary in Tolkien’s Middle-earth"
- "Pitfalls in Faëry"
- 2013: "Mythic Frodo and his predestinate Call to Adventure"
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