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George Sand at Nohant by Françoise Gilot. Copyright 1986
George Sand at Nohant by Françoise Gilot. Copyright 1986
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The George Sand Association is a literary society founded at Hofstra University in 1976 as the Friends of George Sand. The purpose of the society is to encourage and foster research and scholarship on George Sand. Members also have access to the society's discussion group on the internet.

As an allied organization of the Modern Language Association, the George Sand Association organizes panels and conducts its annual business meeting at the MLA convention.

The society also co-sponsors conferences on George Sand.

The President of the George Sand Association is Catherine Nesci, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. She can be contacted at her email address: cnesci@frit.ucsb.edu. The Vice President is Pratima Prasad, Associate Professor of French at the University of Massachussets Boston (pratima.prasad@umb.edu). The Treasurer is Alexandra Wettlaufer, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at University of Texas at Austin (akw@mail.utexas.edu).

GSA publishes an annual scholarly and refereed journal, George Sand Studies. The co-editors-in-chief of the journal are Françoise Massardier-Kenney (fkenney@kent.edu) and Isabelle Naginski (isabelle.naginski@tufts.edu) and David A. Powell (david.a.powell@hofstra.edu). George Sand Studies is catalogued by the MLA and is a member of CELJ.



GSA is a tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) organization.
This site is maintained by David A. Powell, david.a.powell@hofstra.edu.
Last modified 4 February 2012
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On the event of the 30th anniversary of the George Sand Association, some of the founding members gathered their recollections to produce a history of the first ten years of the society. Click here to read the history.

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There is a new Membership Application page, with PayPal payment possibility as well as check! And the form is automatically sent to the Treasurer.

Nous avons un nouveau formulaire pour Adhérents, avec possibilité de payer avec PayPal ainsi que par chèque ! Le formulaire est automatiquement transféré à la Trésorière.

Voici le lien qui peut vous aider: Application/Formulaire.

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Regarding an additional session for the MLA convention, to be held on Jan. 3-6, 2013 in Boston, the GSA Board would like your input. You will soon receive an invitation to vote on the three sessions below:

1. "Screening George Sand": from King Vidor's _A Song to Remember_ (1945) tonumerous TV series and, in the 1990s, James Lapine's _Impromptu_ (1990), Andrzej Zulawski's _La Note Bleue_ (1991), and Diane Kurys's _Les Enfants du siècle_ (1999), and more recently _Desire for Love_ (Chopin) in 2002, a plethora of movies and biopics feature George Sand (most often via her love affair with Chopin). How do colleagues use such films in their courses?
Which critical insights do they bring to such cinematic representations of one of the most famous women writers of all time, which most often undermine the woman writer?
The above session may be organized as a workshop rather than a paper-reading session.

2. "Exploring the New Feminist Biography (France, 1800-1930)": Which models have historians and literary scholars forged in order to write the biographies of women writers such as Germaine de Staël, George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, Flora Tristan, Rachilde and Colette? In what ways do they address the role of mothers and foremothers as precursors, as did Janet Beizer's in _Thinking through the Mothers_ (2009)? To what extent do the relations between work and life shape or influence the biographical process? We invite papers addressing a wide range of critical perspectives and variety of professional backgrounds.

3. "Exploring Women Writers' Biographies in a Comparative Context": Which models have historians and literary scholars forged in order to write the biographies of George Sand as well as of other women writers in nineteenth-century France, Great Britain, Germany, and North-America? In what ways do they address the role of mothers and foremothers as precursors, as did Janet Beizer's in _Thinking through the Mothers_ (2009)?
To what extent do the relations between work and life shape or influence the biographical process?

 
 
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