Department of Spanish Classes Offered This Term Requirements for a Spanish major and minor Language Learning Center Foreign Study Ecuador Summer Program Sites Spanish Web Latin American Studies College of Liberal Arts Hatfield Library			Patricia Varas Professor, College of Liberal Arts Department of Spanish Willamette University Mailing Address: Willamette University Department of Spanish 900 State Street Salem, OR 97301 Phone:(503) 375-5372 Fax:(503) 375-5398 email: pvaras@willamette.edu office: Walton 143 office hours: Tuesday & Thursday 1:00-2:00 & by appointment Professor Varas was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and has traveled extensively in South & Central America and the Caribbean. She received her PhD in Latin American Literature from the University of Toronto and has taught in several universities in Canada: Victoria University, University of Waterloo, and York University. She has published a book, Narrativa y cultura nacional (Quito: Abrapalabra, 1993), made several contributions to published collections, and published many articles on Spanish and Latin American literature. Her research is mainly interdisciplinary in the fields of Spanish American women writers, modernity, and cultural studies. She is currently finishing a manuscript on Delmira Agustini and Montevideo's fin-de-siècle. Personal Web Page Courses offered Fall semester 2006: Contemporary Latin American Women Writers Senior Thesis: Latin American Studies Research and Discussion: Topics in Literature