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Radhika Koul is assistant professor of literature and Mellon Emerging Scholar at Claremont McKenna College. Koul's research and teaching often probe the way literature and philosophy from South Asia emerge in conversations governed by an implicit Western logic, whether cognitive aesthetics, literary criticism, or education itself. Much of her recent work has been interdisciplinary, straddling contemporary research in neuroscience and artificial intelligence with the age-old study of how literature works on the human mind. In 2022 – 23, she was a graduate fellow with Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI). Koul earned her BA in literature from Yale University and two graduate degrees from Stanford: a PhD in comparative literature and an MS in symbolic systems, otherwise known as cognitive science.