Theater Professor Sue-Ellen Case: ASTR Distinguished Scholar

TFT theater professor Sue-Ellen Case has won the American Society of Theater Research Distinguished Scholar Award for 2007, the most important prize for scholarship conferred by the Association.

The award was presented November 17 at the 2007 Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research and the Theatre Library Association in Phoenix, AZ, during an awards luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel.

“Receiving this award from the preeminent scholarly society in North America in our field is an amazing accomplishment,” said William Ward, chair of the UCLA Theater Department. “It is the equivalent in our field to winning a Pulitzer. Sue-Ellen Case brings distinction not only to herself and UCLA Theater, but to all of the University of California.”

The Distinguished Scholar Award is presented each year to an academic researcher or critic whose body of work has made a significant contribution to the field of theatre, dance, opera, and/or performance studies. Case was selected by the three previous Distinguished Scholar Award winners, Judith Milhouse of the City University of New York, Harry Elam of Stanford University and Tracy Davis of Northwestern University.

‘“I am honored, of course, especially since the fields in which I have worked: critical theory, feminist and lesbian performance and new media were all, in the beginning, bitterly contested, and are now celebrated,” Professor Case said, when learning of the award. “The citation says that it recognizes the breadth of my work, both in scholarship and service. It makes me even prouder, in a way, to be seen as representing the progress that has been made by our profession as a whole.”

For William Ward “the award is all the more significant in that Sue-Ellen Case has led our theater faculty to create a very highly sought-after and successful Ph.D. program that receives applicants and trains scholars for careers literally worldwide.”

Sue-Ellen Case is the committee chair for theater and performance studies in the Department of Theater in the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. A past editor of “Theatre Journal,” Case has published widely in the fields of German theatre, feminism and theatre, performance theory, and lesbian critical theory. She has published over thirty articles in journals such as “Modern Drama,” “differences” and “Theatre Research International,” and in many anthologies of critical works. Her books include “Feminism and Theatre” and “The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture.” Along with Philip Brett and Susan Leigh Foster, she edits a book series with Indiana University Press, “Unnatural Acts.” Professor Case has been an invited professor in residence at Swarthmore College, Stockholm University and the National University of Singapore. Her most recent book is “Performing Science and the Virtual,” published by Routledge.

The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) is a U.S.-based professional organization that fosters scholarship on worldwide theatre and performance, both historical and contemporary. ASTR was founded in 1956 to encourage theatre scholarship and to provide a link with other similar groups represented in the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR). ASTR cooperates with the Theatre Library Association to host its annual conference and with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education in many endeavors of mutual interest.

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