Ziona Kocher 

Ziona Kocher is an Assistant Professor of British literature of the long eighteenth century. They received their PhD in English from the University of Tennessee in 2022. At Florida Atlantic University, they teach courses on British literature from 1660-1830 and drama. Dr. Kocher’s current book project focuses on the performance on identity on the long-eighteenth-century stage, and they have published about identity and women’s relationships in works such as The Country Wife, The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret. They were the 2022 recipient of the ASECS Catharine Macaulay Prize, a 2021-22 fellow at the Denbo Center for the Humanities and the Arts, and a 2020-21 fellow at the Lewis Walpole Library. Their work has appeared in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, a special issue of Humanities, and in collections published by Bucknell University Press and University of Delaware Press.