Communications

Assistant Professor

College of Arts & Humanities - English

Bio

Sophia Sunshine Vilceus, known around campus as “Professor Sunshine,” worked as an Adjunct Instructor in the English Department at West Chester University for several years before being promoted to Assistant Professor of English in 2022. Her courses at WCU are often centered around discourse on The Black Experience in America and White Privilege & Fragility. She is currently pursuing her PhD in The School of Education at The University of Delaware. Sophia is the author of His & Her Will Be Done, Late Conversations with my Late Mother, and The Last Pew: Journeying Back to God’s Will After an Affair. She, alongside some of her brilliant colleagues in the English Department, was published in The Invisible Labor Issue of The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics in 2020.

In early 2022, on behalf of WCU’s The Society, Vilceus facilitated a conversation with Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones on The 1619 Project, Critical Race Theory, and the U. S. Education System. In 2022, Vilceus received the inaugural Equity Access Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives Excellence Award in recognition of her work to advance and support diversity, equity, and inclusion at West Chester University.

Education

• B.A., CUNY City College of New York
• M.A., Howard University
• PhD, University of Delaware (in progress)