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Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an associate professor of English and Scholar-in-Residence at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. She serves as a commentator for Georgia Public Broadcasting and has also appeared on GPB’s Georgia Gazette and The Issue. She has written for Christianity Today, Christian History & Biography, The Well, Cambridge University Press, Western Michigan University’s Medieval Institute, Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History, and others. In addition to writing articles and giving local, national, and international lectures, she is the author of books on medieval literature, Christian mystics, and linguistics. Her books include God of Mercy: Ælfric’s Sermons and Theology with Mercer University Press; A Little Daily Wisdom (formerly Incandescence: 365 Readings with Women Mystics), Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader, and Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict with Paraclete Press; and with John Algeo, the fifth and sixth editions of Problems in the Origins and Development of the English Language and Answer Key with Heinle/Wadsworth of Cengage Learning. In April 2009, Shambhala Publications released her translations of The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counsel, two classic medieval works on Christian contemplative prayer. In January 2010, Paraclete Press will publish her book of ancient spiritual classics. Dr. Butcher’s books are well-reviewed and often reprinted and re-issued. For her Georgia Public Broadcasting commentaries, see the “Georgia Public Broadcasting Commentator ” link above and click on these dates: November 16, 2008 (4:00 p.m.); November 15 (noon); October 15, 2008; October 8, 2008; September 8, 2008; June 13, 2008; May 24, 2008; and May 23, 2008.
Dr. Butcher was the 2006 Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year for Georgia and received the 2007 President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship at Shorter College. She has been a Fulbright scholar and lecturer twice. She was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea for the 2004-2005 academic year, and she was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London from 1989-1991, conducting research in the British Library, the Bodleian, and other Oxbridge libraries. While a Fulbright Scholar at University College London, she was under the supervision of the late Professor John McNeal Hodgson. Dr. Butcher studied with John T. Algeo at the University of Georgia, earning a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies, Phi Beta Kappa, and a Graduate Student Teaching Award. She also studied at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg as a Rotary International Graduate Scholar. A summa cum laude graduate of Shorter College, Carmen was senior class president, a Whitworth-Muldrow Language and Literature scholar, member of Alpha Chi honor society, and recipient of the Louie D. Newton leadership and service award. Dr. Butcher is an honor graduate of Cherokee High School in Canton, Georgia. Her most unbelievable Fulbright moment was meeting Queen Elizabeth.
Dr. Butcher speaks on a diversity of topics:
- Christian Contemplative Prayer with The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counsel’s Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Author
- Christian women mystics (Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Clare of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and others)
- Benedict of Nursia and His Rule
- The First Sermons in (Old) English
- Ælfric of Eynsham, Tenth-Century English Benedictine Monk
- Sociolinguistics and World Englishes
- The Wonders of Etymology
- Old English, Middle English, Modern English Grammar and Vocabulary
- The Marvels of Reed-Kellogg Diagramming
- The History of the English Language
- Global Citizenship (based on study-abroad experiences / lectures in Germany, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Ireland, and South Korea)
- Writing and Revising
- Publishing and Marketing Nonfiction
- Fulbright Scholarships (how to get one and what happens when you go on a Fulbright year)