Sue-Ellen Case (born 1942) is

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and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theatre Department in the School of Theater Film and Television at the

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. She has published several books, including ''Feminism and Theatre'' 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'';("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, who has been a key figure in the development of feminist and lesbian performance studies...") which won the 1996

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for

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; ''Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre'',Case, Sue-Ellen (ed.), 'Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre'' (1990)() and many others. Along with

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and Susan Leigh Foster, she edits a book series with

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Press entitled ''Unnatural Acts''. She has published more than thirty 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. Case has been an invited professor in residence at

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, and the

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, and has lectured at

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. Case is currently a distinguished professor at the

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''Faculty Biography''

Short biography at Transliteracies Project
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