Sue-Ellen Case

Sue-Ellen Case (born 1942) 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. 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 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. Case attended graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she completed her doctoral studies on German playwright Heiner Müller.

Academic career 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. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Singapore. She has lectured at the Rhodopi International Theatre Laboratory. Case is currently a distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. and The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture. Case has also edited several anthologies of critical works and play texts, including The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women's Plays; Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance, which won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Drama; Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, 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,