Dr. Mohammad Tariq (Tariq Faraz) is currently Assistant Professor of English at JS Hindu (PG) College Amroha, (MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly). He has worked as Assistant Professor of English in Department of Languages, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Integral University, Lucknow. from 2012-2020. He is the author of the book The Prophets of Hope and Survival in the 20th Century Absurdities (2020). Tariq teaches English, Contemporary Literary Theories, translation theories, Stylistics and Discourse Analysis, and various courses on Professional Communication. He did his PhD in English from Lucknow University and also qualified UGC-NET in the same. The topic of his doctoral research was “Metaphor, Time and Narrative: Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Language and Literary Hermeneutics.” It was a philosophical inquiry about the nature of language, the development of religious hermeneutics to the literary studies broadly oriented towards literary hermeneutics. It showed the way how the purely religious discipline legitimately came to be associated with literary studies. A significant feature of his personality is his deep interest in academic leadership, future of academic institutions, the fresh avenues, both in creative writing and critical thinking i. e. modern English and Urdu poetry, French hermeneutics, Studies in Comparative Religion and Film Studies. His area of specialization is in the Philosophy of Language and Literary Hermeneutics.