Carmen Acevedo Butcher
		Curriculum Vitae Media Georgia Gazette Commentator Introduction to Hildegard Hildegard’s Songs Hildegard’s Letters Beowulf and Grendel Medieval Webquest	with Shorter students at Barnes & Noble

Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an associate professor of English and Scholar-in-Residence at Shorter College in Rome, Georgia. In addition to articles and lectures, she is the author of books on medieval literature, Christian mystics, and linguistics, and is a widely sought speaker on these subjects. 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 Problems in the Origins and Development of the English Language and Answer Key (with John Algeo, for Heinle/Wadsworth of Cengage Learning). In April 2009, Shambhala Publications will release her translations of The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counsel, two classic works on contemplative prayer. In late 2009, Paraclete Press will publish her book of ancient spiritual classics. Dr. Butcher’s books are well-reviewed, often reprinted, and re-issued.

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, as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea for the 2004-2005 academic year, and as 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 variety of topics, including the ones listed below.

• 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
• Contemplative Prayer with The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counsel’s Anonymous Fourteenth-Century Author
• Sociolinguistics and World Englishes
• The Wonders of Etymology
• Old English, Middle English, Modern English Grammar and Vocabulary
• The Marvels of 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)