Towards a Phenomenology of Awe: “Suspension of disbelief” and Takarazuka Revue’s Sublimation of Ruptures, in: Journal of The Russian Association of Japanese Studies, 2022/4. [English, peer-review, in preparation, to be published June 2023]

Tomita Isao, the Composer: The Quiet Mastery of Non-Intrusive Specificity, in: Musicology Today 37, Journal of the Romanian National Music University, Bucharest: National Music University Press, 2017/2. [in preparation, to be published in March 2023, English, peer-review]

Filmmusikforschung in Japan: Überwindung der Tradition oder Wiedererfindung der Tradition?, in: Kiel’s Contributions on Film Music Research 18, Kiel: University of Kiel Press, 2023. [in preparation, to be submitted in January 2023, German, peer-review]

Pragmatic Love: Lessons Taught By Robots, in: Synergy, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2022/2. [submitted to be published in December 2022, English, peer-review]

Cowboy Bebop and the Versatility of Culture, in: Synergy, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2022/2. [submitted to be published in December 2022, English, peer-review]

Pragmatism, Compassion and Love: A Comparative Analysis between Ponpoko: The Heisei Tanuki War (Takahata Isao/Studio Ghibli, 1994) and The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature (Cal Brunker/Open Road Films & al., 2017), in: Brukenthalia, 2023/1, edited by Mihaela Grancea, Sibiu: Lucian-Blaga University Press, September 2023. [English, peer-review, submitted to be published September 2023]

Tomita Isao, Animation Soundtracks and the Versatility of Music between Cross-Cultural Epigonism and Ultimate Mastery, in: The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation, edited by Marco Pellitteri, London: Palgrave, 2023. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed June 2023]

Three Paradigms of Animation Soundtracks: Tenmon’s Contribution, in: The Palgrave Handbook of Music and Sound in Japanese Animation, edited by Marco Pellitteri, London: Palgrave, 2023. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed June 2023]

Masculinity (Re-)Formulation and Nation (Re-)Branding: Takarazuka Revue’s Cooperation with Dove Attia, in: Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication – Topics in Cultural Studies, Volume 10, No 1, edited by Elena Museanu, Bucharest: Universitaria Press, 2022. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed December 2022]

Lost and Found in Translation: Takarazuka Revue’s Cooperation with Gérard Presgurvic, in: „Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies: Intersemioticity, Intergenericity, Intermediality: From Translation to Dramatisation, Adaptation, Performance”, issues no. 17 and 18, 2022. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed December 2022]

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Representation of War, Death and Suffering in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy, in: The Annals of West University of Timisoara. Humanities Series, Special Issue: Modern Japan, edited by George Sipos, Timisoara, 2022. [English, submitted to be printed December 2022]

Vulnerable Masculinity: Emotional Transcendence and the Re-Framing of the Bushidô in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy, in: Vulnerable. Representing Vulnerability in Literature and Film, edited by Miriam Fernández-Santiago and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, London: Palgrave Macmillan. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed November 2022]

Takarazuka Revue in Reiwa Period: The Fourth Wave of Rewriting the Past, in: Practicing Japan – 35 Years of Japanese Studies in Poznań and Kraków, Kraków University Press, 2022. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed December 2022]

Cyberspaces of Loneliness: The Long Decline of Japanese Masculinity, in: On Continuity and Change in Asia, Olomouc Asian Studies series, Volume 2, 2022. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed December 2022]

Connecting Fantasy Worlds and Nostalgia: Miyazaki Gorô’s Animation Movies, in: in: Journal of The Russian Association of Japanese Studies, 2022/4. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed December 2022]

Mythological Innuendoes and the Redemptive Power of Love: The Legend of King Arthur and Its Global Ramifications, in: Postmodern Mythologies, edited by Maria-Luiza Oancea and Ramona Mihaila, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press. [English, peer-review, submitted to be printed December 2022]

I Love, Therefore I Am: Dismantling the Cartesian Dichotomy and Unifying the Self in Ghost in the Shell, in: Brukenthalia, 2022/2, edited by Mihaela Grancea, Sibiu: Lucian-Blaga University Press, September 2022, pp. 51-70. [English, peer-review]

Uncanny Soundscapes: Japanoise, Masculinity and the Joy of (Structured) Chaos, in: Muzica, Journal of the Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists, Bucharest: Musical Press, 2022/2, pp. 42-63. [English, peer-review]

Exploring Hybridity: Kanno Yôko, Takarazuka Revue and the Subversive Dynamics of (Soft) Power in Late-Modern Japan, in: „Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies: Semanticity, Alterity, Creativity: Building on Eugenio Coseriu’s Legacy”, issues no. 15 and 16, edited by Emma Tamaian, June 2022, pp. 289-301. [English, peer-review]

“To Love or Not To Love”: The Romeo and Juliet Franchise and Its Global Ramifications, in: Brukenthalia, 2022/1, edited by Mihaela Grancea, Sibiu: Lucian-Blaga University Press, pp. 55-75. [with Satoshi Kotake, English, peer-review]

Social Critique and Visionarism in Kon Satoshi’s Animation Movies, in: Brukenthalia, 2022/1, edited by Mihaela Grancea, Sibiu: Lucian-Blaga University Press, pp. 76-98. [English, peer-review]

"May the Love be with you!": From the Joy of Life to the Transcendence of Existence in Takahata Isao’s Animation Works, in: Synergy, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, October 2021/1, pp. 97-114. [English, peer-review]

Towards a Phenomenology of Seduction: From Julia Kristeva to Anti-Shôjo, in: Thinking with Animation, edited by Joff Bradley and Catherine Cheng, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, October 2021, pp. 143-162. [English, peer-review]

Education as Subversive Practice: Takarazuka Revue’s Performative Re-Enactments of the Cold War, in Educational Theory and Philosophy, edited by Joff P. N. Bradley, London/New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, June 2021. [English, peer-review] Web of Science & SCOPUS

Fieldwork: A Journey Toward Myself, in: Diggin’ Up Music: Musikethnologie als Baustelle, edited by Michael Fuhr, Kerstin Klenke and Julio Mendivil, Hildesheim: Hildesheimer University Press, January 2021, pp. 90-108. [English, peer-review]

Exploring Tenmon’s Music, in Mechademia 2020, edited by Stacey Jocoy and Frenchy Lunning, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021, pp. 187-201. [English, peer-review]

The Renegotiation of Modernity: On teaching the dialectics of Japanese cultural imperialism, as reflected in the Rurouni Kenshin phenomenon, in: Bringing Forth a New World: Engaged Pedagogy in the Japanese University, edited by David Kennedy, Joff Bradley, Charles Cabell, Rotterdam: Brill Sense Publishers, 2020, pp. 103-122. [English, peer-review] Web of Science

Pragmatic U-Turns: Unity in Diversity and the Discomfort of Self-Representation in Takarazuka Revue’s Performance Strategy, in: Dialogos, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, March 2020/1, pp. 221-243. [English, peer-review]

The Warrior and the Seducer: Late-Modern Masculinity between Napoleon and Casanova in Takarazuka Revue’s Public Display of Affection(s), in: Yearbook of the Bucharest University – History, edited by Alexandra Tarlea Iulia Iliescu, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, December 2020/2, pp. 160-182. [English, peer-review]

Compassionate Neo-Traditionalism in Hosoda Mamoru’s Animation Movies, in: Journal of The Russian Association of Japanese Studies, 2021/4, pp. 53-76. [English, peer-review]

In Search of (Lost) Masculinity: Understanding Shinkai Makoto’s Animation Movies of the Last Decade, in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2020/3, Volume 31, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, 2020, pp. 52-75. [English, peer-review]

Exuberant or Uncanny? Femininity at Crossroads in Yonebayashi Hiromasa’s Animation Movies, in: Postmodern Mythologies, edited by Maria-Luiza Oancea and Ramona Mihaila, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2020, pp. 121-143. [English, peer-review]

Re-Framing Masculinity in Japan: Tom Cruise, The Last Samurai and the Fluid Metanarratives of History, in: Synergy, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2020/2, pp. 57-80. [English, peer-review]

Revisionism or Popular Liberalism? Studio Ghibli’s 2013 anime works The Wind Rises and The Tale of Princess Kaguya, in: JAPANologists’ Playground @ 2018, Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus University Press, 2020, pp. 73-92. [English, peer-review]

Detachment and Isolationism or Expansion and Diversification? Zootopia and Angry Birds in Japanese Perspective, in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2019/4, Volume 28, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, 2019, pp. 121-143. [English]

"From Japan, With Love": Frozen and Baymax in Cross-Cultural Perspective, in: Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication – Topics in Cultural Studies, Volume 10, No 1, edited by Elena Museanu, Bucharest: Universitaria Press, 2019, pp. 153-178. [English, peer-review]

The Postfeminist Desire: Love, Capitalism, Japan – Mythological-Folkloric Foundations of Late-Modern (Cultural) Consumerism, in: Postmodern Mythologies, edited by Maria-Luiza Oancea and Ramona Mihaila, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2019, pp. 81-104. [English]

On Musical Vulnerability: The Joy of Life and the Power of Love as Expressed in Hisaishi Joe’s Anime Soundtracks, in: Muzica, Journal of the Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists, Bucharest: Musical Press, 2019/2, 2019, pp. 62-84. [English, peer-review]

What Is a Man? An anthropological inquiry into the cross-cultural poetics and pragmatics of masculinity, in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2019/2, Volume 26, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, 2019, pp. 32-55. [English]

“Nihon, mon amour”: Japan's Paris and the Crossroads of History, in: Japanese Studies: Tokens and Manifestations, Krakaw: Jagellonian University Press, 2019, pp. 75-98. [English, peer-review]

Cross-Mediality and the Invincibility of Vulnerability: The Rurouni Kenshin Phenomenon, in: Synergy, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2019/2, pp. 112-135. [English, peer-review]

The Lonely World of Virtual Love: Masculinity between self-eradication and neo-validation in late-modern Japan, in: Dialogos, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2019/1, pp. 45-68. [English, peer-review]

Cross-Temporality and the Re-Designing of Masculine Identity: Time paradoxes and the healing power of love in anime movie Your Name? (2016), in: Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication – Topics in Cultural Studies, Volume 9, No 1, edited by Elena Museanu, Bucharest: Universitaria Press, 2019, pp. 52-71. [English, peer-review]

The Invention of Traditions: The representation of family and community in Studio Ghibli’s anime works, in: Brukenthalia, 2019/1, edited by Mihaela Grancea, Sibiu: Lucian-Blaga University Press, 2019, pp. 163-189. [English, peer-review]

Back to the Roots: The representation of life and nature in Studio Ghibli’s anime works, in: Brukenthalia, 2019/2, edited by Mihaela Grancea, Sibiu: Lucian-Blaga University Press, 2018, pp. 95-117. [English, peer-review]

Gender Acrobatics: The questionable liberalism of popular culture and the emergence of alternative masculinity patterns in late-modern Japan, in: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, No 31/2018, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2018, pp. 27-47. [English, peer-review]

Alternative Realities, Alternative Masculinities: An empiric enquiry into Japan’s video game culture and its global impact, in: Yearbook of the Bucharest University – History, edited by Marius Diaconescu and Radu Nedici, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2018/2, pp. 129-153. [English, peer-review]

Love in the Digital Age: Online Dating and the Resurgence of Toxic Humanity, in: Yearbook of the Bucharest University – History, edited by Marius Diaconescu and Radu Nedici, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2018/1, pp. 27-48. [English, peer-review]

"Love Thyself": A Comparison between the English and the Japanese versions of the title song in „Frozen“ (Walt Disney Pictures, 2013), in: Dialogos, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2018/1, pp. 52-70. [English, peer-review]

Songs of Revolution: The dialectics of Cultural Imperialism and the Nostalgia for Intellectual Activism in Late-Modern Japan, in: Synergy, Journal of the Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication, Bucharest: Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Volume 14, No 1, 2018, pp. 119-141. [English, peer-review]

Transcendental Predictability: On beauty, loss and remembrance in anime movie „The Tale of Princess Kaguya“ (Takahata Isao/Ghibli Studio, 2013), in: Crossing Boundaries in Culture and Communication – Topics in Cultural Studies, Volume 8, No 1, edited by Elena Museanu, Bucharest: Universitaria Press, 2017, pp. 79-94. [English, peer-review]

The Return of the Feminine Woman, Or: On What The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Ghibli Studio, 2013) and Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures, 2013) Have in Common, in: Irina Holca & Carmen Tamas (eds.): Japan: Premodern, Modern and Contemporary: Proceedings of the Third International Conference, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press/“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University Press, 2017, pp. 87-109. [English, peer-review]

Musical Selves: Anime soundtracks from domesticating plagiarism to hydridising authenticity, in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2018/1, Volume 21, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, pp. 131-168. [English, peer-review]

Beyond the Music of Words: From the „sound of loneliness“ to the „resonance of love“ in Murakami Haruki’s literature, in: Musicology Today 31, Journal of the Romanian National Music University, Bucharest: National Music University Press, 2017/2, pp. 31-52. [English, peer-review]

Discourses of Longing: From strategic emotions to emotional strategies in Takarazuka Revue’s tour in Berlin (2000), in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2017/1, Volume 20, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, pp. 67-89. [English, peer-review]

Das disziplinierte Selbst: Liebe, Hoffnung und Nostalgie als Identitätsparadigmen in japanischem Heavy Metal [The Disciplined Self: Love, Hope and Nostalgia as Identity Paradigms in Japanese Heavy Metal], in: Heavy Metal Around the World, Frankfurt-am-Main: Peter Lang Press, April 2017. [German]

Imperial Mythologies: Love, Nostalgia and the Dynamics of Cultural Imperialism in Late-Modern Japan, in: Myth, Symbol and Ritual: Elucidatory Paths To the Fantastic Unreality, edited by Maria-Luiza Oancea and Ramona Mihaila, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2017, pp. 281-298. [English]

Mythical Serenity Prayer: Ecology, ethnic humor and the praise of conviviality in the anime movie Ponpoko: The Heisei Tanuki War (1994), in: Myth, Symbol and Ritual: Elucidatory Paths To the Fantastic Unreality, edited by Maria-Luiza Oancea and Ramona Mihaila, Bucharest: Bucharest University Press, 2017, pp. 299-320. [with Raluca Nicolae, English].

Identity in Fragments: Kanno Yôko, counter-orientalism and eclectic nostalgias in anime soundtracks, in: Irina Holca & Carmen Tamas (eds.): Japan: Premodern, Modern and Contemporary: Proceedings of the Second International Conference, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press/“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University Press, 2016, pp. 179-203. [English, peer-review]

Imaginary Nostalgia: The poetics and pragmatics of escapism in late-modernity as represented by Satsuki & Mei’s House on the EXPO 2005, in: Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia, No 29/2016, Warsaw: Warsaw University Press, 2016, pp. 97-125. [English, peer-review]

The Transcendence of Language: Encyclopedic Practice and the Emergence of a New Nation as reflected in Nishi Amane's Hyakugaku renkan, in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2016/1, Volume 18, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, pp. 28-55. [English]

"May the Wind Be with You!": The Beauty of Commitment and the Inevitability of Evil in The Wind Rises (Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki Hayao, 2013), in: Romanian Economic and Business Review, edited by Serban Georgescu and Mirela Murgescu, 2016/1, pp. 49-62. [English]

Fragmentäre Identitäten: Kanno Yoko, Orientalismus und eklektische Nostalgien in Anime Soundtracks [Identity in Fragments: Kanno Yoko, Orientalism and Eclectic Nostalgias in Anime Soundtracks], in: Kiel’s Contributions on Film Music Research 12, 2016, pp. 432-468. [German, peer-review]

Liquid Identity: Love, heavy metal and the dynamics of gender in anime soundtracks, in: Florian Heesch & Niall Scott: Heavy Metal and Gender, London: Routledge, 2016, pp. 129-143. [English, peer-review] Web of Science

The Fascination of Knowledge: Japanese Encyclopedias and Soft Power - a Historical Overview, in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2015/1, Volume 16, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, pp. 32-56. [English]

The Precarious Self: Love, melancholia and the eradication of adolescence in Makoto Shinkai’s anime works, in: Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt & Roman Rosenbaum: Imagining the Lost Generation: Representations of Precarity in Japanese Popular Culture, London/New York: Routledge, 2014, pp. 117-131. [English, peer-review] SCOPUS

Tender Selves: Love, Imagination and the Musicalisation of Identity in Anime Soundtracks, in: Romanian Economic and Business Review, edited by Serban Georgescu and Mirela Murgescu, 2014/1, pp. 33-51. [English]

"All the World’s a Stage": Takarazuka Revue and its theatralization of culture(s), in: International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 9/2, March 2014, University Sains Malaysia, Penang, 2014, online. [English, peer-review] Web of Science & SCOPUS

The Return of the Encyclopedia: TakaraWiki and the Dialectics of Fandom and Knowledge in Late Modernity, in: Journal of The Russian Association of Japanese Studies, 2014/1. [English, online]

Beyond Historical Commitment: The aesthetics and culture in Takarazuka Revue, in: Proceedings of the International Conference The Meanings and Aesthetics in Asian Cultural Landscape (12.-15. October 2014, Seoul/Korea), Seoul: University of Seoul Press, pp. 298-224. [English]

Translating the other, constructing the self: Japanese premodern encyclopedias and the transculturality of knowledge, in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2013/1, Volume 12, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, pp. 104-137. [English]

Rôjin Z: The politics and poetics of aging as cool endeavor, in: Yearbook of “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 2012/2, Volume 11, Bucharest: ProUniversitaria Press, pp. 34-57. [English]

Befremdende Vertraulichkeiten: Anime Soundtracks vom domestizierenden Plagiarismus zu hybridisierender Authentizität [Alienating Familiarities: Anime soundtracks between domesticating plagiarism and hybridising authenticity], in: Kiel’s Contributions on Film Music Research 8, 2012, pp. 20-61. [German, peer-review]

"Kiyoku, tadashiku, utsukushiku": Takarazuka Revue and the project of identity (re-)solidification, in: Contemporary Japan 23, Journal of German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tôkyô/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 5-25. [English, peer-review]

Provisorische Authentizität: Kulturelle Identität als stille Herausforderung der Tradition in der Takarazuka Revue [Provisory Authenticity: Cultural identity as quiet challenge of the tradition in Takarazuka Revue], in: Musicology Today 5, Journal of the Romanian National Music University, Bucharest: National Music University Press, 2011, pp. 1-22. [German, peer-review]

Die otokoyaku: Der Topstar und die Konstruktion einer japanischen Identität [The otokoyaku: The topstar and the construction of Japanese identity], in: Detlef Altenburg and Rainer Bayreuther: Musik und kulturelle Identität – Music and cultural identity, Kassel: Bärenreiter Press, 2010, pp. III/218-226. [German]

Der japanische Janus – Gespräche mit Takahata Isao [The Japanese Janus – Conversations with Takahata Isao], in: Tadashi Ogawa and Hisashi Kashiwa: Interdisciplinary Phenomenology, Kyôto: Kyôto University Press, 2007, pp. 147-155. [German]

Reflexii goetheene în oglinda muzicii [Goethe's reflexes in the mirror of music], in: Opus – Journal of Culture, 2/3 (4), September 1999, Bucharest: National Music University Press, pp. 24-37. [Romanian, peer-review]

Sfinxul între realitate arheologicã şi viziune mitologicã [The Sphinx between archaeological reality and mythological vision], in: Opus – Journal of Culture, 2/2 (3), May 1999, Bucharest: National Music University Press, pp. 72-74. [Romanian]

Un posibil nod gordian [A possible Gordian knot], in: Opus – Journal of Culture, 2/1 (2), March 1999, Bucharest: National Music University Press, pp. 77-78. [Romanian]

Mitul faustic sau paradoxul triunghiului Ispitã – Pãcat – Mântuire [The Faustian myth or the paradox of the triangle temptation – sin – redemption], in: Opus – Journal of Culture, 1/1, December 1998, Bucharest: National Music University Press, pp. 52-55. [Romanian]

Nostalgia începuturilor [The Nostalgia of the beginnings], in: Muzica, Journal of the Romanian Association of Composers and Musicologists, Bucharest, viii/2 (30), 1997, pp. 155-156. [Romanian, peer-review]