Judith S. Kaufman is Associate Professor in Curriculum and Teaching at Hofstra University in New York. She received her Ph.D. in educational psychology and statistics from the State University of New York at Albany.

Judith S. Kaufman is Associate Professor in Curriculum and Teaching at Hofstra University in New York. She received her Ph.D. in educational psychology and statistics from the State University of New York at Albany.

David A. Powell is professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. He is the author of "While the Music Lasts: The Representation of Music in the Works of George Sand" and has published critical editions of "Jacques" and "Indiana". His articles on Sand have appeared in "Etudes litteraires", "Romantic Review", and "George Sand Studies"; he has also published chapters in "George Sand: Intertextualite et polyphonie", "George Sand: Une ecriture experimentale", "George Sand. Pratiques et imaginaires de l'ecriture", "Novel Stages", "George Sand: Ecritures et representations", "Presences de l'Italie dans l' uvre de George Sand", and "L'empire des signes". He has also published on nineteenth-century French literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebecois literature, representations of music in literature, and queer theory, as well as on musical resonances in Verlaine's and Mallarme's poetry. His current project is on queer narrative strategies in early-nineteenth-century novels.