The Movable Team

Dr. Lillvis is Muellerleile Endowed Chair and Professor of English at St. Catherine University. She is the author of Posthuman Blackness and the Black Female Imagination (University of Georgia Press, 2017) and co-editor of Community Boundaries and Border Crossings: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers (Lexington, 2016).

Dr. Córdoba is an Assistant Professor of Geography at Marshall University. His research focuses on the spatial organization, association, and interaction of people and their socioeconomic activities.

Dr. Schöberlein is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University–Central Texas, where he also serves as Program Coordinator for the MS in Liberal Studies. He is a contributing editor to the Walt Whitman Archive, a member of the STARS/ORCCA network, and has published on mapping, authorship attribution, and distant reading measures in a number of scholarly venues in the field of Digital Humanities. Dr. Schöberlein is the author of Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880 (Oxford UP, 2023).

Dr. Thurman is an Assistant Professor of English at Marshall University, specializing in contemporary American literature. Her research focuses on race, gender, and economic precarity in twenty-first century labor narratives.

Tijah Bumgarner (West Virginia, USA) is a filmmaker and professor. She teaches film production and journalism at Marshall University. Bumgarner holds a BFA in film/video from the California Institute of the Arts and an MA in Media Studies from West Virginia State University. As a doctoral candidate at Ohio University, her dissertation “Working Against the Past: De-stabilizing the Appalachian Image” explores how extraction is narrativized. Bumgarner’s experience growing up in West Virginia has inspired much of her work. In 2017, Bumgarner completed her first feature film, Meadow Bridge, a coming-of-age narrative set in rural West Virginia. Currently, she is collaborating with Jena Seiler on a documentary about the opioid epidemic in Appalachia. In both scholarship and practice, Bumgarner seeks to disrupt stereotypes that conform to a single defining narrative of the region.

Paige Justice is Director of Student Success & Institutional Effectiveness at Huntington Junior College. Her research and creative writing publications explore issues surrounding the duality of Queer and Appalachian identities.

Delana J. Price is currently an English doctoral student at the University of Kansas. She holds a Master of Arts in English and dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Spanish and English from Marshall University. DJ has been with The Movable Project since its infancy, working as a research assistant and social media content creator. Outside of her contributions to Movable, DJ has worked with at-risk students as an instructor, tutor, and mentor at the secondary and post-secondary level. Her areas of study include minority representation in television and digital media, popular culture studies, as well as queer narratives of space and place. DJ continues to write, present, and publish works that explore inclusive narratives in both academic and public-facing genres.

Aubrey Lemon holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Psychology and is studying for her Master of Occupational Therapy at St. Catherine University. Aubrey is passionate about holistic methods in mental and physical health. While changing careers, she is also passionate about helping people find peer recovery support on and off campus. She hopes to one day write education crossing her two professions.

Hallie Knipp is a Digital History doctoral student at Clemson University in South Carolina. Her research interests include the history of labor unions and women’s labor history. Hallie received her MA in English from Marshall University in 2022. She has worked with Movable since the fall of 2020, mainly creating content for our social media account and News page.

Laura Rice is a recent graduate from Marshall University with degrees in Literary Studies and Psychology and minors in Spanish and the Digital Humanities. She works on tagging and editing with Movable.

Ivy Scoville is a graduate student at Marshall University studying English with a focus on gothic literature and horror media. She also has a background in anthropology and primarily works on transcriptions at Movable.