Sue-Ellen Case

Case studied music at the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, and earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts from San Francisco State University.{{Cite web |title=Sue-Ellen Case |url=https://www.tft.ucla.edu/faculty/sue-ellen-case/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television |language=en-US}} Case attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her doctoral studies on German playwright Heiner Müller.{{Cite web |title=Theater professor Sue-Ellen Case leaves mark on feminist, LGBT theory |url=https://dailybruin.com/2016/06/19/theater-professor-sue-ellen-case-leaves-mark-on-feminist-lgbt-theory |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=Daily Bruin}}{{Cite thesis |last=Case |first=Sue-Ellen |title=Development in post-Brechtian political theater: the plays of Heiner Müller |date=1981 |access-date=28 Dec 2024 |degree=PhD |publisher=University of California, Berkeley |url=https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991048203669706532}}

Case has been an invited professor in residence at the University of Warwick, Stockholm University, and Swarthmore College, where she was the Eugene Lang Professor for Social Change.{{Cite web |title=Interview with Sue-Ellen Case: What is Performance Studies? (2010) |url=https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/hidvl/hidvl-int-wips/item/2669-wips-sue-ellen-case.html |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=hemisphericinstitute.org |language=en-gb}} She was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Singapore.{{Cite web |title=Sue-Ellen Case {{!}} Fulbright Scholar Program |url=https://fulbrightscholars.org/grantee/sue-ellen-case |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=fulbrightscholars.org}} She has lectured at the Rhodopi International Theatre Laboratory. Case is currently a distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Notable former students of Case include Malik Gaines. Case retired from teaching at UCLA in 2016 but continued her research.

Case has published several books, including Feminism and TheatreCase, Sue-Ellen, Feminism and Theatre (1988)({{ISBN|978-0416015010}}). and The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture.Case, Sue-Ellen, The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture (1996) ({{ISBN|0253332265}}). Case has also edited several anthologies of critical works and play texts, including The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays;Case, Sue-Ellen (ed.), The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays (University of Michigan Press 1992) ({{ISBN|978-0472064069}}).{{cite news | url= http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-13718181/divided-homeland-contemporary-german.html | title= Book Review | journal=Theatre Journal | date= March 1, 1993 | access-date=February 2, 2010}}("Sue-Ellen Case's incisive introduction develops a historical, feminist, and theatrical framework, as well as providing information on playwrights not included in the volume. The focus of the book is the seven plays. Each play is individually introduced by Case, providing biographical information, critical perspectives, and points of reference to Anglo-American feminism and theatre.") Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance,Case, Sue-Ellen (ed.), Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance (1996) ({{ISBN|978-0415127660}}).{{cite journal |jstor=25068504 |title=Book Review |journal=Theatre Journal |date=March 1998 |volume=50 |issue=1 |last=Bender |first=Felicia |pages=136–137|doi=10.1353/tj.1998.0004 |s2cid=145607019 }}{{cite journal | jstor= 25068504 | title= Book Review | author= Pelligrini, Ann | journal=The Women's Review of Books | date= October 1, 1997 | volume=50 | pages=136–137}}("Case, who has been a key figure in the development of feminist and lesbian performance studies...") which won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Drama;[http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/paw_1996_1999.html#1996 Previous Lammy Award Winners] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402194805/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/paw_1996_1999.html |date=2009-04-02 }}, Lambda Literary Foundation, Retrieved February 2, 2010. Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre,Case, Sue-Ellen (ed.), Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre (1990)({{ISBN|978-0801839696}}) and many others. Along with Philip Brett and Susan Leigh Foster, she edits a book series with Indiana University Press entitled Unnatural Acts''.

She has published more than forty-five articles, in journals such as Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, differences, and Theatre Research International and in many anthologies of critical works. Her many articles include "Making Butch: An Historical Memoir of the 1970s" in Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Genders (Cassell Academic Press, 1998) and corrected in "Toward a Butch-Feminist Retro-Future," published in the collection Queer Frontiers (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000). Professor Case's essay "Tracking the Vampire" (differences, 1991), which explores lesbian representation in film, has also been widely reprinted. In "Seduced and Abandoned: Chicanas and Lesbians in Representation," printed in the collection Negotiating Performance (Duke University Press, 1994), she argues for political affiliations across difference.

In 2007 Case received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. She was also awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in 2012. In 2010 the Women & Theatre Program+ Allied Feminist Coalition awarded Case an Achievement Award for Scholarship.{{Cite web |title=Career Achievement |url=https://www.womenandtheatreprogram.com/career-achievement |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=Women & Theatre |language=en}}

• Queer studies
• Queer theory

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• [http://www.tft.ucla.edu/2011/09/faculty-sue-ellen-case/ School of Theatre, Film and Television]
• [https://archive.today/20070714045243/http://www.filmtv.ucla.edu/faculty/facdot/index.cfm?action=dsp_faculty&specialty=critical&specialty_id=2 Faculty Biography]
• [http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu/post/research-project/project-members/sue-ellen-case Short biography at Transliteracies Project]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQE-MH3icx8 Interview with Case], Association for Theatre in Higher Education Career Achievement Award for Academic Theatre Winner, November 2012, via YouTube

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