Research keywords (1)：
modern and contemporary Japanese literature, realism, translation, media, gender
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4)：
2023 - 2028 Reexamining Discourses, Representations, and Modes of Expression in Late Meiji Magazines: a Cross-disciplinary Media Study from a Trans-Russo-Japanese War Perspective
2021 - 2026 中国の改革開放萌芽期の再検討:メディア空間からみた旧東欧との分岐
2020 - 2023 Translation as Subversive and Creative Practice: Japanese Literature in Communist Romania
2014 - 2017 A Comprehensive Study of Modern Japanese Discourses on Literary Theory: Introduction of Western Theories and Changes in the Traditional View of Literature
Papers (14)：
HOLCA Irina. <Articles>Real Animals and Where to Find Them: in the Works of Shimazaki Tōson and Shiga Naoya. ZINBUN. 2022. 52. 87-104
Irina Holca. Sawako Nakayasu Eats Sagawa Chika: Translation, Poetry, and (Post)Modernism. Japanese Studies. 2021. 41. 3. 379-394
HOLCA, Irina. Shimazaki Tōson's Shinsei [New Life]: Shaping Self and Other through Letters. ZINBUN. 2017. 47. 47. 161-176
HOLCA, Irina. Romania and Japan: Real and Imaginary Encounters at the Turn of the 20th Century. Analele Facultății de Limbi și Literaturi Străine. 2016. 6. 178-190
Why Literature? Shimazaki Tōson's Works and National Language Education
(5th Japan: Pre-modern, Modern, and Contemporary International Conference 2017)
Centre and Periphery in Literature Education: The Case of Shimazaki Tōson.
(15th European Association for Japanese Studies International Conference 2017)
Shimazaki Tōson's Literature: A Recipe for Cultivation, Knowledge, and Self-expression
(Symposium: Modern Literature and Education: Exploring New Approaches to the Study of Literature 2017)
The Perspective of the Other: Teaching Japanese Studies in Japan
(Annual Conference on Global Higher Education 2017)
