Irina HolcaIrina Holca came to Japan to further her education after graduating from the University of Bucharest with a major in Japanese Studies and a minor in British Studies. She obtained her MA and PhD degrees in modern Japanese literature, from Nara Universty of Education and Osaka University, respectively. She joined Kyoto University's Institute for Research in the Humanities as a senior lecturer in 2014 and went on to become an associate professor in UTokyo's PEAK program in 2019. She specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and is also interested in translation and media studies. In 2018, she published the Japanese monograph Shimazaki Toson hirakareru tekusuto: media, tasha, jenda (The (re)opened text: Media, otherness, and gender in Shimazaki Toson's works; Bensei Shuppan). In 2020, she co-edited the volume Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Literature, Society, and Culture (Rowman and Littlefield). Read More Read Less