Comparative Literature senior, Angeli Lohner (right in photo), represented the Arts and Humanities as a student speaker at the Chancellor's Light the Way dinner. In conversation with Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, Oliver O'Reilley, Lohner shared her thoughts on the value of a Humanities degree. As Co-Editor of the Department's multilingual literary magazine, Vagabond, Lohner is a leader in the department. She has co-facilitated a DeCal and was recently published in Ellipses Literature and Arts. Read her complete bio below:
Year and Major: Senior, majoring in Comparative Literature and Spanish, minoring in Creative Writing
Angeli Lohner, currently a senior majoring in Comparative Literature and Spanish and minoring in Creative Writing at the University of California, Berkeley, hails from Lima, Peru, but has lived in California for the past seven years. As a transfer and re-entry student, Angeli has been clear on her path to understand literature and writing through multiple perspectives, languages, cultures, and traditions.
Passionate about creative writing, Latin American studies, and teaching, Angeli has facilitated a DeCal in Creative Writing in Spanish where students created and showcased original pieces in the language. She has also worked as a writing tutor for the Student Learning Center, further developing her skills as a teacher and student of the craft and encouraging active learning in her peers. Currently, she is the Co-Editor-In-Chief of Vagabond, a creative writing publication under the Comparative Literature department, where she leads a team to coordinate all aspects of publishing creative multicultural and multilingual pieces from undergraduates all over the world.
Angeli is the recipient of the 2022-2023 Tollefson Prize from the English department for her work of nonfiction prose, “My Peruvian Face,” which will be published this spring in the journal, Ellipsis Literature and Art. This year, Angeli will be conducting research on the fragmented racial identity in postcolonial hispanic culture. Under the supervision of Professor Estelle Tarica, she hopes to build this project into a collective memory at the intersection of academic research and personal experience.
In her free time, Angeli enjoys reading, writing, and exploring new places both in nature and in urban landscapes.
Photo credit: Keegan Houser