Jorge Camacho is a professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Latin American Studies at USC, where his courses span early colonial literature to contemporary Latin American poetry and novels. He has held leadership positions as Director of the Spanish Program, Graduate Director of the Comparative Literature Program, and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Studies for the Walker Institute.

Professor Camacho has served as peer reviewer for over two dozen national and international journals, publishing houses, and organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts. He has held editorial board positions with South Atlantic Review, La Habana Elegante, and Isla, Quarterly Journal of Afro-Cuban Issues.

His scholarly output includes 131 peer-reviewed single-authored articles and book chapters published in leading journals and academic collections across the United States, Europe and Latin America, appearing in both English and Spanish. He has authored sixteen scholarly books, including eight monographs, and has recovered more than eighty previously unknown chronicles and poems by major Latin American writers such as José Martí, Rubén Darío, and Mercedes Matamoros.

Two of Professor Camacho's books featuring previously unknown chronicles by José Martí (Cuba's national hero) have been reprinted in Cuba. His recovery of unknown literary chronicles by Rubén Darío (Nicaragua's greatest poet) was reproduced by Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Argentina. These rediscovered works found in nineteenth-century newspapers throughout Latin America are now incorporated into these authors' canonical bodies of work.

His recent monographs include Contra el horror: El cuerpo, la religión y la violencia en la literatura colonial cubana (Against Horror: The Body, Religion, and Violence in Colonial Cuban Literature), published by Editorial Verbum in 2025, and Una comunidad de dolientes: El indígena en la literatura colonial cubana (A Community of Mourners: Indianism and Cuba's Colonial Literature), published by Purdue University Press in 2026.

Professor Camacho's book project examines Afro-descendant literature in colonial Cuba. His archival research has uncovered six previously unknown poems by enslaved Africans and more than twenty works by overlooked 19th-century Afro-Cuban authors.