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liz polcha

@lpolcha.bsky.social

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she/they | literary studies professor writing a book on gender & natural history | editor and co-founder @insurrecthistory.bsky.social | I mainly post about labor and cats | Tulsa & Philadelphia

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This fall I'm teaching Literature and Science & our central novel is Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation. We are going to spend some time at the Academy of Natural Sciences looking at field journals and talking about colonialism and botany - somehow I have the most success teaching this class via horror

poster with bright colors for ENGL 300 Literature and Science at Drexel University

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I'm working on my course calendars for the winter term while wrapping up teaching in the fall term, but I am very excited to teach this intro to feminist theory class for the first time at Drexel. The class is going to move slow and focus on 1-2 readings per week, with lots of note-taking by hand

Introduction to Feminisms class poster with hot pink and green abstract patterns, the poster notes the class is offered in winter 2026 at Drexel University by professor Liz Polcha

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

On Indigenous peoples’ day, here’s a quote from my hometown hero Joy Harjo. I’m looking forward to reading her new book that just came out (Girl Warrior).

quote from Joy Harjo’s A God in the House: “what is common to all indigenous peoples is a belief that we are all relatives, all being. All is sacred.”

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My Intro to DH class this fall at Drexel is 🤓jam packed🤓 with class trips to archives. We will be doing more hands-on exercises with non-digital media, including an assignment where the students check out (from me) a discman or walkman, and explore the CD or tape collection at the Free Library

introduction to digital humanities class poster for fall 2025 Drexel University, with images of a floppy disc, a cd, a VHS tape, and a gameboy

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Things are terrible, social media is overwhelming. Here is a photo of my cat Cranberry who just rolled a natural 20

photo of a black cat lounging next to an orange lamp and a a 20-sided die used for playing dungeons and dragons

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

📣📣 On 2/19 union organizers are planning a national day of action for higher ed workers to protest the NIH cuts; Philly will be participating. Join me in attending and/or please share! You can find more details here: www.labor4highered.org#register

Info on 2/19 national day of action for academic workers affected by NIH cuts

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I feel like I’m posting into the void on this app; here is a cat photo for visibility of my kitten Cranberry

A black kitten with an extremely cute face, with his favorite rainbow wand toy

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

If you’re in Philly for MLA2024 & craving a treat and escape from center city, Franklin Fountain is donating $2 to Jewish Voices for Peace from every “Have a Heart Sundae” purchased

Franklin Fountain’s Instagram post about donations to Jewish Voices for Peace

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

I’m on two early American related MLA2024 panels this Friday, one at 8:30 AM and another at noon. Join us at 8:30 to celebrate Tara Bynum’s book Reading Pleasures & hear about early Black literature or at noon where I’ll be talking about @insurrecthistory.bsky.social with Ittai Orr 🎉

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

The Legacy Center’s collections on women physicians in the 19th century are incredible & another highlight was this newspaper account of the first western trained Filipina doctor Honoria Acosta-Sison, which interestingly uses her success to disparage midwives in the Philippines

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

The 1890s women physicians used the embroidered pillow to adapt the more domestic genre of the sampler & add more scientific and potentially more liberating details, such as the bicycle and this signature by two women, with interlocking hearts, who were possibly a couple

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

@nicolekeller.bsky.social and I caught up on zoom last week & inadvertently both showed up in our Women Writers Project apparel 🤓

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

I’m teaching Intro to DH this fall quarter to mostly English majors. it’s a totally new 10-week class within a dept that has no digital humanities presence. I want the class to be gentle, fun, encouraging, and highly collaborative & I’m looking for ideas or suggestions of assignments or readings ✨

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liz polcha @lpolcha.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Today is my birthday (& here’s an old photo of me with my brother and our cat Picasso). If you’d like to help me celebrate, consider making a donation to Project Meow which supports cats in West Philly: projectmeow.org/donate/

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