Year	Degree	Institution
	Ph.D.	The University of Chicago

Jacqueline Stewart’s research and teaching focus on African American
film and literature, American silent film, histories and theories of
spectatorship, and the role of race in “orphan films” (non-commercial
and other marginalized film and video works in need of preservation,
from home movies to cable access television programs).

Her book, Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity (University of California Press, 2005) explores African American images, spectatorship and filmmaking practices up to 1920. Her
essays have appeared in Critical Inquiry, Film Quarterly, The Moving Image and American Cinema’s Transitional Era: Audiences,
Institutions, Practices, eds. Charlie Keil and Shelley Stamp
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)). Her current
projects include a study of the life and work of African American
actor/writer/director Spencer Williams, and the South Side Home Movie
Project.

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