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Sheedy Teaching Award

The Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award is presented annually to an outstanding teacher in the College of Arts and Letters.

The Sheedy Award was founded in 1970 in honor of Rev. Charles E. Sheedy, C.S.C., who served as dean of the College from 1951–69, and acknowledges a faculty member who has sustained excellence in research and instruction over a wide range of courses. This individual must also motivate and enrich students using innovative and creative teaching methods and influence teaching and learning within the department, College, and University.

2020 Award Recipient

Professor Pamela Wojcik

Pamela Wojcik is a professor and chair of the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and a concurrent professor in the Department of American Studies and the Gender Studies Program. 

She joined the Arts & Letters faculty in 1998 and focuses her research on American film, with particular emphasis on issues of space, gender, performance, and genre. She teaches both introductory and advanced film courses on a variety of topics — including the history of the movie musical, the career and image of Frank Sinatra, and the construction of masculinity in American film.

A past president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Wojcik also won a Guggenheim fellowship in 2020 for her current book project, Unhomed: Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema. That project explores America’s ambivalent and shifting attitude toward placelessness through marginalized figures — including tramps, hitchhikers, the homeless, and contemporary youth. 

She will accept the award during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday, November 17.

Previous Award Recipients