Valeria López Fadul
About
Associate Editor of History and Theory
Associate Professor of History and Latin American Studies, Wesleyan University
Valeria López Fadul is an Associate Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University. She is interested in the philosophy of language and history of science and researches the way knowledge was made and circulated in early Latin America and across the Iberian world.
Her book, The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire (JHU Press, 2025), reconstructs the beliefs and practices with which sixteenth-century humanists, missionaries, and crown officials governed Spanish America’s multilingual domains. Work from this project has appeared in Pacific Coast Philology and in the edited volume After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity.
Contact
Email: vlopezfadul@wesleyan.edu