Carmen ButcherCarmen Acevedo Butcher is Professor of English and Scholar-in-Residence at Shorter University. A Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year for Georgia, she also received a President's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship. She taught gradute- and undergraduate-level linguistics as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea, and was a Fulbright Scholar at University College London. She also studied at Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg as a Rotary International Graduate Scholar. She has served as a commentator for Georgia Public Broadcasting and authored several books on medieval literature, Christian mystics, and linguistics. Her translation of THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING received the 46th annual Georgia Author of the Year award, the oldest literary award in the Southeastern United States. Read More Read Less