Jorge Camacho is a Professor of Spanish, Latin American, and Comparative Literatures at the University of South Carolina-Columbia. He has published 14 books, several of them dedicated to discussing Afro-Cuban literature and culture. They are titled “Miedo negro, poder blanco en la Cuba colonial” (Iberoamericana, 2015), “Amos siervos y revolucionarios: la literatura de las guerras de Cuba (1868-1898), una perspectiva trasatlántica” (Iberoamericana, 2018), and “Representaciones del mal: brujos y ñáñigos en Cuba” (Universiy of Mississippi Press, 2021). In addition, he has published more than one hundred refereed articles and book chapters in top refereed journals and scholarly collections in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, and 5 books with previously unknown, and uncollected texts written by José Martí, Rubén Darío, and Mercedes Matamoros. He is currently the Director of the Latin American Studies Program at USC.