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.