Caio Yurgel

His research focus is primarily in philosophy, psychoanalysis, creative writing, and comparative literature, with an emphasis on literatures written in Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. He is especially interested in comparative and interdisciplinary approaches to literary and cultural analysis.

He is the author of Landscape’s Revenge (DeGruyter, 2018) and A Estética do Espetáculo: Cinco Teses em Walter Benjamin (NEA, 2013), winner of the Mario Pedrosa Award for Essays on Contemporary Art and Culture, awarded by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. He has also published two award-winning novels, Samba Sem Mim (Saraiva/Benvirá, 2014) and As Noites de Hong Kong São Feitas de Neon (Gato Bravo, 2019). His recent publications include essays on Alejandra Pizarnik, Roberto Bolaño, Hilda Hilst, Clarice Lispector, Li Ziqi, as well as “Archive as Catastrophe” (Glocalism, 2021). He has a forthcoming translation of Yu Hua’s 在细雨中呼喊 from Chinese into Portuguese.

Yurgel holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule, Freie Universität Berlin, and conducted a joint postdoctoral research fellowship with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Peking University.

卡悠博士的研究重点主要涉及哲学、精神分析、创意写作及比较文学，尤其关注以中文、法语、德语、葡萄牙语和西班牙语创作的文学作品。他对文学与文化分析的比较和跨学科方法尤为感兴趣。

他是《景观的复仇》（Landscape’s Revenge, DeGruyter, 2018）和《景观美学：沃尔特·本雅明的五篇论文》（原著：A Estética do Espetáculo: Cinco Teses em Walter Benjamin, NEA, 2013）的作者，其中后者荣获巴西文化部颁发的马里奥·佩德罗萨当代艺术与文化论文奖（Mario Pedrosa Award for Essays on Contemporary Art and Culture）。此外，他还出版了两部获奖小说：《无我之桑巴》（Samba Sem Mim, Saraiva/Benvirá, 2014）和《香港的夜晚是由霓虹构成的》（As Noites de Hong Kong São Feitas de Neon, Gato Bravo, 2019）。他近期的发表包括关于阿莱杭德拉·皮萨尼克（Alejandra Pizarnik）、罗贝托·波拉尼奥（Roberto Bolaño）、希尔达·希尔斯特（Hilda Hilst）、克拉丽丝·李斯佩克托（Clarice Lispector）、李子柒等人的学术论文，以及《作为灾难的档案》（“Archive as Catastrophe,” Glocalism, 2021）。他即将出版余华《在细雨中呼喊》的葡萄牙语译本。

卡悠在柏林自由大学弗里德里希·施莱格尔研究生院（Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule, Freie Universität Berlin）获得比较文学博士学位，并在香港中文大学完成联合博士后研究项目。在加入昆山杜克大学之前，他是北京大学的博士后研究员。