Bertrand Gervais is full professor in the Literary studies Department at the University of Québec in Montréal (UQAM) and the Head of the Canada Research Chair in Digital Art and Literature. He is the founding director of Figura, the Research Center on Textuality and the Imaginary, and of NT2, the Research Laboratory on Hypermedia Art and Literature. He teaches American literature and literary theory, specializing in theories of reading and interpretation, and on the Imaginary. He has published essays on literary reading and contemporary imagination, and digital aesthetics. He is also a novelist.