Associate Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Bertrand Gervais is the founding director of NT2 and was the principal investigator of the Littérature québécoise mobile partnership (2019-2024), as well as of Figura, the Centre de recherche sur les théories et les pratiques de l'imaginaire. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Captures. Figures, théories et pratiques de l'imaginaire. In 2018, he received the Award of Excellence for Computing in the Arts and Humanities from the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. In 2024, he was elected associate member of the Académie Royale de Belgique.  He has recently published Au bout des doigts. Figure, lecture et imaginaire, published by Codicille éditeur (2023), as well as Un imaginaire de la fin du livre. Littérature et écrans, published by Presses de l'Université de Montréal (2023). With Sophie Marcotte, he also edited the collective Archiver le présent. Imaginaire de l'exhaustivité, published by Presses de l'Université Laval (2023).