Recent Presentations of Work
Invited Lectures
“Chica, Xica, and the Desire for History in Brazil.” Department of Africana Studies, Department of Latin American Studies, Davidson College. January 30, 2024.
“Saudade: Método e metodologia da raça no Brasil.” Brazilian Historians in the United States (BRAHUS). Lecture given in Portuguese (“Saudade: Method and Methodology of Race in Brazil”). May 11, 2023.
“Mestizaje in Latin America: National Nostalgias, National Futures.” Department of History, Pennsylvania State University. September 27, 2022.
“O Mito da Democracia Racial e a Performance da Branquitude no Brasil.” Universidade Estadual de Minas Gerais-Ituiutaba. Lecture given in Portuguese (“The Myth of Racial Democracy and the Performance of Whiteness in Brazil”). March 18, 2021.
“Miscigenação Queer: Contra-leituras de Bom-Crioulo (1895) e da Revolta da Chibata (1910).” Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, Universidade Federal da Bahia. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. November 21. Lecture given in Portuguese (“Queer Miscegenation: Counter-readings of Bom-Crioulo (1895) and the Revolt of the Lash (1910)”). November 21, 2018.
Conference Presentations
“Saudades for Slavery: Longing and Black Queer Temporality in the Telenovela Xica da Silva.” Brazilian Studies Association, San Diego, CA. 2024.
“Na luta pela felicidade: Tchinda Andrade, Titica, and Black Trans Joy as Activism in Lusophone Africa.” National Women’s Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. Panel organizer of “Broadening the ‘Luta’: Black Feminist Interventions at the Margins in the Lusophone World.” 2023.
“Innovations and the Future of Graduate Education in Global Black Studies” roundtable chair/organizer and presenter. Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, Accra, Ghana. 2023.
“Boneca Eva: Amusing Anatomies and Nostalgia of White Womanhood in Brazil.” Latin American Studies Association, Vancouver, BC. Panel chair and organizer of “Brazilian Anatomies of Whiteness: Heredity, Heritage, and Futures of the Past.” 2023.
“Love Letters from Palmares.” “Then You Don’t Want Me’: Canonizing Gayl Jones” Special Symposium. Boston University/University of California, San Diego/California State University-Fullerton (online). 2022.
“Saudade for a Racial Democracy, Grammars of Brazilian Whiteness.” Brazilian Studies Association, Washington, D.C. (online). 2022
“Meat-aphors of Hunger: Queer Consumptions of Blackness in the Telenovela Xica da Silva.” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA (online). 2022.
Campus Talks
“Eating Slavery: Queer Consumptions of Blackness in the Telenovela Xica da Silva.” Department of African and African American Studies. Washington University in St. Louis. 2024.
“Sisters in Song and Diaspora: Celia Cruz and Angélique Kidjo.” Department of African and African American Studies. Washington University in St. Louis. 2023.
“The Drag of Mestiça Nationalism: Performing Brazilian Africanity in the Samba of Clara Nunes.” Department of African and African American Studies. Washington University in St. Louis. 2023.
“Reimagining Black Studies in the 21st Century” roundtable speaker. Department of African and African American Studies. Washington University in St. Louis. 2022.
“The Bittersweetness of Celia Cruz: Grammars of Resistance and Pleasure in Afrolatinidad.” Department of African and African American Studies. Washington University in St. Louis. 2022.
“Xica da Silva’s Dress: Accessorizing History in Mayra Santos-Febres’ Fe en disfraz.” St. Clair Drake Symposium. University of California, Berkeley. 2022.
“Bom-Crioulo and the Queering of Romanticism for Fin-de-siècle Brazilian Progress.” Department of Spanish and Portuguese. University of California, Berkeley. 2022.
Dr. Mundell presenting, from left to right, at the Brazilian Studies Association conference in San Diego, April 2024; the National Women's Studies Association conference in Baltimore, October 2023; the Latin American Studies Association conference in Vancouver, BC, May 2023; and, at a campus lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. Photo credit: João Gabriel Rabello Sodré, Cassie Osei, and Cliff Magno.
Cover photo of Rosana Paulino's Parede da Memória at the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, 2023, in close-up. Photo credit: Levi Fanan.