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Carmen Acevedo Butcher is a professor of English and Scholar-in-Residence at Shorter University 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 writes for Christianity Today, Christian History & Biography, Kyria, and The Well, and has also written for 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 translation of The Cloud of Unknowing with the Book of Privy Counsel won the 46th annual Georgia Author of the Year Award, the oldest literary awards in the Southeastern United States. She has also published a Lenten devotional featuring classic Christian authors, Following Christ: A Lenten Reader to Stretch Your Soul, as well as God of Mercy: Ælfric’s Sermons and Theology with Mercer University Press; also 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. With John Algeo, she has published the fifth and sixth editions of classic linguistic textbooks on the History of the English Language: Problems in the Origins and Development of the English Language and Answer Key with Cengage Learning / Wadsworth. She is working on the seventh edition of these classic linguistic textbooks, including Origins and Development of the English Language. 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 University. 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
- Technology and Its Impact on Our (Frantic!) Lives
- 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)