 De Torre headed the department of literature at the University of Buenos Aires, and held professorships at numerous universities throughout the Americas, while continuing his work in literary and artistic criticism.He was a co-founder and literary adviser of the publishing house Losada, where he oversaw the compilation of the "Complete Works" of Lorca, and devoted space in his anthologies to Alberti, Bergamín, Cernuda, Faulkner, Kafka, Camus, Moravia, Malraux, and others.He collaborated on many Spanish and Latin American periodicals concerned with criticism, including Buenos Aires's "La Nación" and "Síntesis", of which he was the secretary.