Genesis: A womanly vocation / Françoise Mallet-Joris. The first steps in a writer's career / Michèle Blin Sarde. Colette and the enterprise of writing / Anne Duhamel Ketchum. Colette and the art of survival / Janet Whatley
Gender and genre: Colette and the epistolary novel / Joan Hinde Stewart. The relationship between meaning and structure in Colette's rain-moon / Donna Norell. A typology of women in Colette's novels / Sylvie Romanowski. The test of love and nature / Jacob Stockinger. The vagabond / Erica Eisinger. Colette and art nouveau / Claire Dehon. Colette and Ravel / Margaret Crosland. The theatre as literary model / Mari McCarty
Generation: Writing, language, and the body / Yannick Resch. Polymorphemic perversity / Suzanne Relyea. The anamnesis of a female "I" / Nancy K. Miller. Image structure, codes, and recording in The pure and the impure / Ann Cothran and Diane Crowder. Colette and signs / Christiane Makward.