Jacqueline Stewart Biography
Jacqueline Najuma Stewart is a television personality and author. University of Chicago professor of cinema studies and director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House.
How old is Jacqueline Stewart? – Age
Stewart is 54 years old as of 2024. He was born on 1 February 1970, in Chicago’s South Side, where he also grew up.
How tall is Jacqueline Stewart? – Height
A television personality and author stands at an average height of 5 feet 10 inches.
Jacqueline Stewart’s Mother, Father – Family
Stewart was born and brought up by her loving parents in Chicago’s South Side. However, she has not revealed her parent’s identities in the media.
Jacqueline Stewart’s Education
Stewart was brought up on Chicago’s South Side and graduated from Kenwood Academy High School. In addition, she earned her BA from Stanford University, and her AM and also PhD both from the University of Chicago (UC).
Besides, she taught at the university from 1999 to 2006, and later moved to an associate professorship at Northwestern University, returning to UC in 2013. Later in 2018, she became elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She as well was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2021.
Is Jacqueline Stewart Married? – Husband
A television personality and author is happily united in marriage to her cherished companion and soulmate, Count Giovanni Cordelli. Besides, their love story weaves a beautiful tapestry together with her impressive career in cinema.
Jacqueline Stewart Career
She has as well written about the history of African Americans in filmmaking as well in Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and also Black Urban Modernity in 2005, co-authored, L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema in 2015, and along with Charles Musser co-curated the DVD set Pioneers of African-American Cinema in 2016.
Likewise, Stewart has worked on the National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) of the Library of Congress and also chaired the NFPB Diversity Task Force. Moreover, she founded the South Side Home Movie Project, which collects, preserves, the homemade films of residents of South Side, as a cultural and historical resource, Chicago, together with interviews of creators in 2005.
Furthermore in September 2019, she became the first African-American host of Turner Classic Movies, as host for Silent Sunday Nights. Besides, taking a sabbatical from the university, in 2021 she was as well named the inaugural artistic director at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Jacqueline Stewart’s Net Worth
A television personality and author has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
You can find and follow Jacqueline on Twitter using the account name: @ProfJStewart