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Sue-Ellen Case
Born1942
AwardsLambda Literary Award
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of the Pacific, University of California, Berkeley, San Francisco State University
Thesis
  • Development in post-Brechtian political theater : the plays of Heiner Müller (1981)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral studentsMalik Gaines

Sue-Ellen Case (born 1942)[1] is Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theatre Department in the School of Theater Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles.[2] She has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from both the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the American Society for Theatre Research, and won a Lambda Literary Award for her work Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance.

Education

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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.[3] Case attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her doctoral studies on German playwright Heiner Müller.[4][5]

Academic career

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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.[6] She was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Singapore.[6][7] She has lectured at the Rhodopi International Theatre Laboratory. Case is currently a distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.[4] Notable former students of Case include Malik Gaines.[4] Case retired from teaching at UCLA in 2016 but continued her research.[4]

Case has published several books, including Feminism and Theatre[8] and The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture.[9] Case has also edited several anthologies of critical works and play texts, including The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays;[10][11] Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance,[12][13][14] which won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Drama;[15] Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre,[16] 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,[4] 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.

Awards

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In 2007 Case received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Theatre Research.[4] She was also awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in 2012.[4] In 2010 the Women & Theatre Program+ Allied Feminist Coalition awarded Case an Achievement Award for Scholarship.[17]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Case, Sue-Ellen, 1942-". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 28 Dec 2024.
  2. ^ "UCD appoints artistic pair". The Sacramento Bee. August 29, 2000. Retrieved January 21, 2010.
  3. ^ "Sue-Ellen Case". UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Theater professor Sue-Ellen Case leaves mark on feminist, LGBT theory". Daily Bruin. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  5. ^ Case, Sue-Ellen (1981). Development in post-Brechtian political theater: the plays of Heiner Müller (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 28 Dec 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Interview with Sue-Ellen Case: What is Performance Studies? (2010)". hemisphericinstitute.org. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  7. ^ "Sue-Ellen Case | Fulbright Scholar Program". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
  8. ^ Case, Sue-Ellen, Feminism and Theatre (1988)(ISBN 978-0416015010).
  9. ^ Case, Sue-Ellen, The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture (1996) (ISBN 0253332265).
  10. ^ Case, Sue-Ellen (ed.), The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays (University of Michigan Press 1992) (ISBN 978-0472064069).
  11. ^ "Book Review". Theatre Journal. March 1, 1993. Retrieved 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.")
  12. ^ Case, Sue-Ellen (ed.), Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance (1996) (ISBN 978-0415127660).
  13. ^ Bender, Felicia (March 1998). "Book Review". Theatre Journal. 50 (1): 136–137. doi:10.1353/tj.1998.0004. JSTOR 25068504. S2CID 145607019.
  14. ^ Pelligrini, Ann (October 1, 1997). "Book Review". The Women's Review of Books. 50: 136–137. JSTOR 25068504.("Case, who has been a key figure in the development of feminist and lesbian performance studies...")
  15. ^ Previous Lammy Award Winners Archived 2009-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, Lambda Literary Foundation, Retrieved February 2, 2010.
  16. ^ Case, Sue-Ellen (ed.), ''Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre (1990)(ISBN 978-0801839696)
  17. ^ "Career Achievement". Women & Theatre. Retrieved 2024-12-27.
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