David A PowellDavid 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 ditions of Jacques and Indiana. His articles on Sand have appeared in Études littéraires, Romantic Review, and George Sand Studies; he has also published chapters in George Sand: Intertextualité et polyphonie, George Sand: Une écriture expérimentale, George Sand: Pratiques et imaginaires de l'écriture, Novel Stages, George Sand: Écritures et représentations, Présences de l'Italie dans l'oeuvre de George Sand, and L'empire des signes. He has also published on nineteenth-century French literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Québécois literature, representations of music in literature, and queer theory, as well as on musical resonances in Verlaine's and Mallarmé's poetry. His current project is on queer narrative strategies in early-nineteenth-century novels. Read More Read Less