Jorge Camacho is a professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Latin American Studies at UofSC. His courses range from early colonial literature to contemporary Latin American poetry and novels. He has served as Director for the Spanish Program, Graduate Director for the Comparative Literature Program, and Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latinx Studies for the Walker Institute.  

He has been a peer-reviewer for two dozen national and international journals, publishing houses, and organizations such as The National Endowment for the Arts, National Sigma Delta Pi Scholarly awards, University Press Florida, Routledge, Leiden University Press, Verbum, and Iberoamericana-Vervuert. In addition, he has been an editorial Board member of South Atlantic Review, La Habana Elegante, and Isla, Quarterly Journal of Afro-Cuban Issues.   

Professor Camacho has published more than one hundred peer-reviewed single-authored articles and book chapters in leading journals and academic collections in the United States, England, Canada, Italy, Spain, and other countries. These publications appear in English and Spanish. In addition, he has published fourteen scholarly books, including six monographs, and made known for the first time more than eighty chronicles and poems by famous Latin American writers such as José Martí, Rubén Darío, and Mercedes Matamoros.   

Two of Prof. Camacho’s books with previously unknown chronicles by José Martí (Cuba’s George Washington) have been reprinted in Cuba, and a third one is forthcoming. In addition, the unknown literary chronicles by Rubén Darío (Nicaragua’s greatest poet) were reproduced by Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero, Argentina. These chronicles and poems are now part of these authors' works.  

In 2014 he was the first Hispanic-Latino to receive the highest award in research and scholarship at UofSC, the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences.  

Prof. Camacho is currently working on two monographs tentatively titled: Espectros, espacios y memorias: el indígena en el imaginario cubano colonial [Specters, spaces, and memories: The Amerindian in Cuban colonial imaginary] and Cuerpos que sufren: literatura, archivo y violencia colonial [Bodies that suffer: Literature, archive, and colonial violence].