Professor and Chair, Critical Studies, Department of Theatre, UCLA
Director, UCLA Center for Performance Studies

A past editor of Theatre Journal, Professor 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 Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, differences, Theatre Research International, and in numerous anthologies of critical works. Her books include Feminism and Theatre, The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture, and Performing Science and the Virtual. She has edited several anthologies of both critical works and play texts, including The Divided Home/Land: Contemporary German Women’s Plays; Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance; Performing Feminisms, and Staging International Feminisms (with Elaine Aston). Along with Philip Brett and Susan Leigh Foster, she edited a book series with Indiana University Press entitled Unnatural Acts. Her works have been translated into German, Swedish, Polish, Chinese, and Korean.

Professor Case has been invited to serve as the Eugene M. Lang Professor of Social Change at Swarthmore College, and as a senior Fulbright Fellow at the National University of Singapore. Her work has received several national awards.

In 2007, she was awarded the Senior Scholar Prize from the American Society of Theatre Research–the career achievement award in her field.

Her book, Feminism and Theatre was reissued in 2008 and a collection of her essays will be published in October, 2008 by Palgrave MacMillan entitled: Feminist and Queer Performance: Critical Strategies.