Marc Atallah is the director-curator of the Maison d’Ailleurs as well as a lecturer and researcher in the French Department of the University of Lausanne. His work focuses mainly on the mythology of popular culture (superheroes, artificial creatures, etc.), conjectural literature (utopia, dystopia, science fiction), and theories of fiction applied to video games and American comic books. He has written many scientific and general public articles and co-published several books, including Souvenirs du Futur (2013), Pouvoirs des jeux vidéo (2015), Portrait-Robot ou Les multiples visages de l’humanité (2015), and L’Art de la sciencefiction (2016).