Colette H. Winn is professor of French at Washington University. Her publications include "The Dialogue in Early Modern France"; "Ronsard, Figure de la variete"; "Veufs, veuves et veuvage dans la France d'Ancien Regime" (ed. with Pellegrin); "Approaches to Teaching Marguerite de Navarre's" Heptameron; "Vieillir a la Renaissance" (with Yandell). She has also published special issues on biblical exegesis in the sixteenth century, the education of women in Old Regime France, memory in early modern times, and early modern medicine.