Angeli Valiente

Angeli Valiente Franchini is a PhD student and a Chancellor Fellow in the Hispanic Languages and Literatures program. She completed a B.A. at UC Berkeley with majors in Comparative Literature and in Spanish and Portuguese (Highest Honors), along with a minor in Creative Writing. As an undergraduate, she was awarded the Tollefson Prize for her nonfiction piece “My Peruvian Face” (Ellipsis Art & Literature), which informed her honors thesis. Her research led her to the Amazon Jungle where she examined how national hegemonic narratives conceal the systemic oppression of minority groups and contribute to the socioeconomic class formation in Peru. Currently, her research interests focus on colonial societal stratification embedded in the social imaginary, particularly in relation to the enduring myth of the Amazon. She has been the Co-editor-in-Chief of Vagabond Multilingual Journal and has taught undergraduate Creative Writing in Spanish at UC Berkeley.