Professor of Theater
Sue-Ellen Case joined UCLA in 2001 as Professor and Chair of Critical Studies in the Theater Department. In addition to numerous publications in feminist theory and theater studies, she has written several articles on butch femme relations, including "Towards a Butch-Femme Aesthetic," an early, pioneering article that explores the relationship between feminist critical theory and lesbian history. Originally published in Discourse (Winter 1988-1989) and reprinted widely, this essay was located historically in "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. Professor Case collected and edited an anthology of lesbian plays, Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance (Routledge, 1996), which won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. Her book The Domain Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture (Indiana University Press, 1997) explores new technologies, gender and lesbian relations.
Email: secase@tft.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 794-5522
Office: 2335 Macgowan
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