Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Ph.D. (1956), is Professor of Comparative Literature, Critical Theory and Hispanic Studies at Western University (London, Canada), and a tetra-lingual writer (of academic writings spanning a number of disciplines, of prose, poetry, essay, children stories, etc.). His recent volumes include Happy New Fear! (Bucharest, 2011), “Literary Theory and the Sciences” (ed.; Neohelicon 41.2, 2014), and Matei Călinescu Festschrift (ed., Yearbook of Comparative Literature 59, 2016). His forthcoming books include Deunamor, Afka and Other Positions, An Astrocentric World, Poezoo and One per Year.Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Ph.D. (1959), Osaka University, is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at that university. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Russian and Japanese literature, including Don Juan East/West: On the Problematics of Comparative Literature (SUNY P, 1998) and Futabatei Shimei (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2016). He is currently working on a book on the concept of “mother-tongue” in literature and literary criticism.

• Notes on ContributorsEditors’ IntroductionPart 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism1 After Theory: Politics against the Police?Vladimir Biti2 Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said’s The World, the Text, and the CriticReingard Nethersole3 Le cercle carré: On Spying and ReadingCălin-Andrei MihăilescuPart 2: Case Studies4 Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional PolicingSowon S. Park5 The Charisma of TheoryMarko Juvan6 Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman’s Theory of TheatricalityKyohei Norimatsu7 The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical DiscoursePéter HajduPart 3: Policing Literary Theory across the World8 Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery NovellasNorio Sakanaka9 Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance StateJohn Zilcosky10 The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev’s White RobesYvonne Howell11 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology – Three Narratives of the Japanese EmpireTakayuki Yokota-MurakamiIndex

“Policing Literary Theory is a timely contribution to a field under attack and a university system that is in shambles and it usefully interrogates some of the causes of this situation through the effective metaphor of a crime-scene drama.” - Sean Braune, Brock University, in: Feminisms. Materialists, Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 4.1 (2018) pp. 132-143

Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Ph.D. (1956), is Professor of Comparative Literature, Critical Theory and Hispanic Studies at Western University (London, Canada), and a tetra-lingual writer (of academic writings spanning a number of disciplines, of prose, poetry, essay, children stories, etc.). His recent volumes include Happy New Fear! (Bucharest, 2011), “Literary Theory and the Sciences” (ed.; Neohelicon 41.2, 2014), and Matei Călinescu Festschrift (ed., Yearbook of Comparative Literature 59, 2016). His forthcoming books include Deunamor, Afka and Other Positions, An Astrocentric World, Poezoo and One per Year.Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Ph.D. (1959), Osaka University, is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at that university. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Russian and Japanese literature, including Don Juan East/West: On the Problematics of Comparative Literature (SUNY P, 1998) and Futabatei Shimei (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2016). He is currently working on a book on the concept of “mother-tongue” in literature and literary criticism.

• Notes on ContributorsEditors’ IntroductionPart 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism1 After Theory: Politics against the Police?Vladimir Biti2 Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said’s The World, the Text, and the CriticReingard Nethersole3 Le cercle carré: On Spying and ReadingCălin-Andrei MihăilescuPart 2: Case Studies4 Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional PolicingSowon S. Park5 The Charisma of TheoryMarko Juvan6 Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman’s Theory of TheatricalityKyohei Norimatsu7 The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical DiscoursePéter HajduPart 3: Policing Literary Theory across the World8 Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery NovellasNorio Sakanaka9 Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance StateJohn Zilcosky10 The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev’s White RobesYvonne Howell11 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology – Three Narratives of the Japanese EmpireTakayuki Yokota-MurakamiIndex

“Policing Literary Theory is a timely contribution to a field under attack and a university system that is in shambles and it usefully interrogates some of the causes of this situation through the effective metaphor of a crime-scene drama.” - Sean Braune, Brock University, in: Feminisms. Materialists, Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 4.1 (2018) pp. 132-143

Călin-Andrei Mihăilescu, Ph.D. (1956), is Professor of Comparative Literature, Critical Theory and Hispanic Studies at Western University (London, Canada), and a tetra-lingual writer (of academic writings spanning a number of disciplines, of prose, poetry, essay, children stories, etc.). His recent volumes include Happy New Fear! (Bucharest, 2011), “Literary Theory and the Sciences” (ed.; Neohelicon 41.2, 2014), and Matei Călinescu Festschrift (ed., Yearbook of Comparative Literature 59, 2016). His forthcoming books include Deunamor, Afka and Other Positions, An Astrocentric World, Poezoo and One per Year.Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Ph.D. (1959), Osaka University, is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at that university. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Russian and Japanese literature, including Don Juan East/West: On the Problematics of Comparative Literature (SUNY P, 1998) and Futabatei Shimei (Kyoto: Minerva shobo, 2016). He is currently working on a book on the concept of “mother-tongue” in literature and literary criticism.

• Notes on ContributorsEditors’ IntroductionPart 1: Theories of Policing in Literature and Literary Criticism1 After Theory: Politics against the Police?Vladimir Biti2 Theory Policing Reading or the Critic as Cop: Revisiting Said’s The World, the Text, and the CriticReingard Nethersole3 Le cercle carré: On Spying and ReadingCălin-Andrei MihăilescuPart 2: Case Studies4 Dear Leader! Big Brother!: On Transparency and Emotional PolicingSowon S. Park5 The Charisma of TheoryMarko Juvan6 Within or beyond Policing Norms: Yuri Lotman’s Theory of TheatricalityKyohei Norimatsu7 The Oppressive and the Subversive Sides of Theoretical DiscoursePéter HajduPart 3: Policing Literary Theory across the World8 Roman Nikolayevich Kim and the Strange Plots of His Mystery NovellasNorio Sakanaka9 Kafka, Snowden, and the Surveillance StateJohn Zilcosky10 The Genetics of Morality: Policing Science in Dudintsev’s White RobesYvonne Howell11 In Lieu of a Conclusion: Policing as a Form of Epistemology – Three Narratives of the Japanese EmpireTakayuki Yokota-MurakamiIndex

“Policing Literary Theory is a timely contribution to a field under attack and a university system that is in shambles and it usefully interrogates some of the causes of this situation through the effective metaphor of a crime-scene drama.” - Sean Braune, Brock University, in: Feminisms. Materialists, Transdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches 4.1 (2018) pp. 132-143