Sophia S. Vilceus

Sophia S. Vilceus

Assistant Professor 
Main Hall 104
SVilceus@wcupa.edu

Education

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

Interests

  • Critical Pedagogy
  • Culturally Relevant Pedagogies
  • Black Studies
  • First-Year Writing
  • Memoir Writing
  • Educating the Marginalized 

Current and Recently Taught Courses:

  • WRT 120: Effective Writing
  • WRT 200: Critical Writing and Research
  • WRT 204: Critical Writing: Approaches to Popular Culture
  • WRT 205: Critical Writing: Investigating Experience
  • ENG 150: Writing Studies Workshop

Selected Publications

Books

Contributing Author with Soslau, E. (2024) When You're the New Teacher: 28 Strategies to Align Your Good Intentions with Your Teaching Practices. Free Spirit Professional.

Vilceus, Sophia. “His & Her Will Be Done,” Hunter Heart Entertainment (2022)

Vilceus, Sophia Sunshine. Late Conversations with my Late Mother, Hunter Heart Publishing (2017).

Vilceus, Sophia Sunshine. The Last Pew: Journeying Back to God’s Will After an Affair, Hunter Heart Publishing. (2015)

Refereed Journal Publications

Carey, R. L., Vilceus, S. S., Polanco, C., Miller, M. X., Marianno, L., & Woelki, W. (2024). Studying and Imagining Mattering With Black Boys: Mutual Self-Discoveries for Collective Healing and Liberation. Qualitative Inquiry, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004241269976

Journal Publication(s) in Progress

Carey, R. L., Polanco, C., Vilceus, S. S., Miller, M. X., Blackman, H., Marianno, L., Daughtry, K. A., Abrams, H.R., & Woelki, W. (in review). Strategic avoidance and the contours of Black adolescent boys’ perceived school mattering during a health crises and racial Reckoning.

Carey, R. L., Polanco, C., Blackman, H., Daughtry, K. A., Abrams, H. R., *Miller, M. X., Marianno, L., Vilceus, S. S., Alobwede, E., & Woelki., W. (accepted). “They just don’t get that we matter”: Black boys’ critical consciousness development during a health crisis and racial reckoning”. The Urban Review.

Publications

Vilceus, Sophia Sunshine. “Fighting Off Anxiety Attacks,” Heart & Soul Magazine, (2012)

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