Jeffrey Carroll is Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in English at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, where he teaches courses on the blues, rhetoric and c...view moreJeffrey Carroll is Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in English at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, where he teaches courses on the blues, rhetoric and composition, and the American novel. He is the author of two textbooks, Dialogs: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines and The Active Reader (with Anne Ruggles Gere), as well as a novel, Climbing to the Sun.view less