Episode 125 of TBR Podcast features an interview with Kristie Ellison as a part of the TBR Emerging Scholar Series. is a PhD Candidate in English, Rhetoric and Composition at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she earned Post-Bac Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. She holds a JD from UNC School of Law (Chapel Hill) and practiced law before earning an MA in Literature from NC State. She focuses on how legal rhetorics, narrative texts, and public writing contribute to and constrain social construction and societal power dynamics. Her dissertation, “It Is So Ordered: Storytelling Power of the US Supreme Court,” argues that the Court uses its narrative choices to expand its judicial power and impact individual rights in ways that are often unrecognized thus failing to prompt a public response. She also enjoys teaching first-year writing at Elon University. For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com and follow us @thebigrhet.