Jacqueline Najuma Stewart (born 1970) is a University of Chicago professor of cinema studies and director of the nonprofit arts organization, Black Cinema House.
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 co-curated, Pioneers of African-American Cinema (2016).In September 2019, she became the first African-American host of Turner Classic Movies, taking over as host for Silent Sunday Nights.Stewart received her BA in English with interdisciplinary emphasis from Stanford University.
She earned her MA and PhD in English from the University of Chicago.