Carl Therrien is Associate Professor in games and film studies at the University of Montreal. His first book about an awesome old console that everyone has already forgotten (The TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine) was published in 2019 in the Platform Studies collection (MIT Press). He has also written numerous papers on immersion and on the history of popular genres (such as adventure games and first-person shooters). His current work seeks to integrate more video games into the canon studied by historians, in order to better document and tell the full story of the richness and diversity of this culture.