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Lidia Chang is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation explores the intersection of print culture, gender, sexuality, and music performance practices in England during the long eighteenth century. She has presented her research at the Jane Austen Society of North America, the American Musical Instrument Society, the Galpin Society, the American Musicological Society, the North American British Music Studies Association, and at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Lidia holds a Master’s degree in Historical Performance from McGill, and has the pleasure of performing with a number of period instrument ensembles including Arcadia Players, Dorian Baroque, and Ensemble Musica Humana, of which she is a founding member, and her recordings of Regency era dance music (Twelve Cotillions by Giovanni Gallini, 1770 and Country Dances by Thomas Skillern, 1781) can be heard on the BBC’s recent adaptation of Poldark.