Annemarie Bean

Annemarie Bean is an independent scholar living in Troy, New York. She has taught in the theatre, American Studies and African American Studies Programs at Williams College, Wesleyan University, Marlboro College and, recently, Bennington College's Society, Culture and Thought and the Prison Education Initiative. Her current work is on transperformance on stage and in television in American popular performance.

Bean's specializations are in performance studies and intercultural performance, with a particular concentration on performances of race and gender in American theatre and performance. She is the co-editor, along with James V. Hatch and Brooks McNamara, of Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy, published by Wesleyan University Press in 1996 and winner of the 1997 Errol Hill Award, given for outstanding scholarship in African American theatre studies by the American Society for Theatre Research. Professor Bean is also the editor of A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements, published by Routledge in 1999.