Professor Colette H. Winn 

      Colette H. Winn is a professor of French in the Romance Language and Literature Department at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. She was born and raised in a small town in southern France near Nimes. She received her PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1980 and has taught at Washington University since that time. Though active in teaching and research, she has taken groups of University students to France every year since 1988.

Recent Publications:

• Critical Edition. Simon de Vallambert, Cinq Livres, De la manière de nourrir et gouverner les enfans dès leur naissance (1565); Geneva: Droz, 2005.

• Editor. Approaches to Teaching Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptameron; New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2007.

• Editor (with Cathy Yandell) and Contributor. Vieillir B la Renaissance; Paris: Honoré Champion, 2009. “‘Lors croistra son nom, quoy que la face soit ridée & incongneue.’ Vieillir au féminin au temps de la Renaissance,” 169-87.

• Critical Edition. Anne Picardet, Odes spirituelles (1623); Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2010.

• Editor and Contributor. Teaching French Women Writers of the Renaissance and the Reformation; New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2011.

Professor Winn cooks up a dish of chanterelles

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