Alice-Catherine Carls

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Alice-Catherine Carls is Tom Elam Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Martin. An internationally published diplomatic and cultural historian of twentieth-century Europe, she is also a translator and literary critic. She serves on several editorial boards and commissions in the United States and abroad.

  • March 8, 2022Jean-Baptiste Para
    Sunrise over Lake Baikal / Photo by Arseniy Chekmarev / Flickr My name is Iaromira Forgive me if I speak of sad things When my footsteps echo in my bones A silence saved me from the word…
  • June 10, 2021Kebir Ammi
    Photo by NCinDC / Flickr He said: Why must they destroy and destroy again? Why must they forget my face my gestures my voice? Why must they believe in my absence even as I stand…
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    May 15, 2017Joanna Pollakówna
    Giovanni Bellini, Pietà (1505), oil on wood, 65 x 90 cm, Gallerie dell’Accademia, VeniceFor more on the poetry of Pollakówna, read “A Terrible Ecstasy,” a companion essa…
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    September 13, 2016Zofia Romanowicz
    Quinn Dombrowski, “Velvet Flower,” 2008For more, read “The Renaissance of Zofia Romanowicz,” an essay by Alice-Catherine Carls. The CircleLion fangs, bear claws…