Jacqueline Stewart

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Jacqueline Najuma Stewart[1] is a University of Chicago professor of cinema studies[2] and director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House.[3] She has published on the history of African Americans in the production of film, including, Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (2005), co-authored, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (2015), and with Charles Musser co-curated the DVD set Pioneers of African-American Cinema (2016).[4] Stewart has served on the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) of the Library of Congress and chaired the NFPB Diversity Task Force.[5]

In September 2019, she also became the first African-American host of Turner Classic Movies, as host for Silent Sunday Nights.[5] Taking a sabbatical from the university, in 2021 she was named the inaugural artistic director at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.[6][7]

Stewart received her BA from Stanford University, and her AM and PhD both from the University of Chicago, and joined the U of C faculty in 2013,[8] from Northwestern University. In 2018, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[9]

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  1. ^ Phillips, Michael (September 2, 2016). "Jacqueline Stewart, champion for African-American cinema". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on November 24, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  2. ^ "Jacqueline Stewart - Department of Cinema and Media Studies". University of Chicago. Archived from the original on April 24, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  3. ^ "Graham Foundation > Events". Graham Foundation. Archived from the original on December 11, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2017. Jacqueline Stewart is ... co-curator of the L.A. Rebellion project at the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Her film work in Chicago includes founding the South Side Home Movie Project and serving as Curator of Black Cinema House, a neighborhood-based film exhibition venue run by Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation.
  4. ^ Jevens, Darel (January 8, 2017). "Top Chicago Critics Circle awards go to 'Moonlight,' 'La La Land'". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on June 15, 2020. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Daniels, Karu F. (September 13, 2019). "Author, professor and film scholar Jacqueline Stewart becomes first African-American host of Turner Classic Movies". Daily News. New York City. Archived from the original on October 2, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
  6. ^ Phillips, Michael (2020-12-21). "Jacqueline Stewart: A bright light of Chicago cinema heads west". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  7. ^ Thompson, Anne (2020-10-20). "The Academy Museum Lucks Out with Chief Artistic Programmer Jacqueline Stewart". IndieWire. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  8. ^ "Jacqueline Stewart" (Press release). University of Chicago. n.d. Archived from the original on May 2, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
  9. ^ "Jacqueline Stewart". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2021-07-07.

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