Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
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Jorge Camacho
Title: | Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Latin American Studies |
Department: | Languages, Literatures and Cultures College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | camachoj@mailbox.sc.edu |
Office: | J. Welsh Humanities Bldg, 716 |
Resources: |
Curriculum Vitae [pdf] |
Jorge Camacho is a professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Latin American Studies at USC. His courses range from early colonial literature to contemporary Latin American poetry and novels. He has served 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.
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 one hundred and twenty 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 more than eighty chronicles and poems by famous Latin
American writers such as José Martí, Rubén Darío, and Mercedes Matamoros that were
dispersed in old newspapers across Latin America.
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 USC, the Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences.
Prof. Camacho is currently working on two monographs tentatively titled: Una comunidad
de dolientes: el indígena en la literatura colonial cubana [A community of mourners:
Indianism and Cuba’s colonial literature] and Cuerpos que sufren: literatura, archivo
y violencia colonial [Bodies that suffer: Literature, archive, and colonial violence].