Adoulou N. Bitang received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Douala, Cameroon, in early 2021. His dissertation focuses on the relationship between modern and contemporary art in order to build the concept of ‘negative modernity’. His first book, À la recherche d’une théorie de la laideur: Petite Critique de la Raison esthétique [translation: In Search of a Theory of Ugliness: A short Critique of Aesthetical Reason] is to be published at Éditions Dianoïa, in Paris. He has also published journal articles and book chapters on Paulin Hountondji and African Philosophy (2016), inquiring about the revolutionary content of art (2017), and dealing with Horkheimer and Adorno (2017). He is currently working on a book questioning the philosophical legacy of Marcien Towa. During his time at Harvard, Bitang will advocate for a bioethical constraint on technoscience in the 21st century.