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Rajesh Kumar teaches in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna. He moved to the Department of Linguistics at the University of Delhi, with a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English and American Literature from Mithila University. He earned MA (1997) and MPhil (1999) degrees in Linguistics from the University of Delhi. After spending a little over a total of four years, in New Delhi he moved to the United States in 1998 as a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lived in Urbana, IL at the U of I campus for five years before moving to Austin, TX. He graduated from the University of Illinois with AM (2001) and PhD (2003) in Linguistics. For his doctoral dissertation research, he worked on the syntax of negation and the licensing of negative polarity items in Hindi. He joined the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2002 and taught until 2006 before moving back to India to teach at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. After spending almost a year at IIT Kanpur, he moved back to UT-Austin and taught there until he joined IIT Patna later.