About the Author

Jeffrey Carroll is Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa, USA, where he is currently the department’s chair. He is the author of four books: The Active Reader (co-authored with Anne Ruggles Gere), Dialogs, Climbing to the Sun (a novel) and, most recently, When Your Way Gets Dark: A Rhetoric of the Blues. He is currently working on the music of Gabby Pahinui.

A kama??ina of Maui, Brandy N?lani McDougall, is of Kanaka Maoli (Hawai?i, Maui, O?ahu and Kaua?i lineages), Chinese, and Scottish ancestry. A poet and scholar, she is the author of The Salt-Wind, Ka Makani Pa?akai (2008), the co-star of an amplified poetry album, Undercurrent (2011), and a recipient of the 2012 Braddock Award from College Composition and Communication (with Georganne Nordstrom). She is currently completing a monograph examining kaona in contemporary Kanaka Maoli Literature. She is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies in the American Studies Department at the University of Hawai?i at M?noa, USA.

Georganne Nordstrom is an Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric and Director of the Writing Center in the English Department at the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa, USA. Georganne’s recent publications have appeared in College Composition and Communication and the anthology A Brief History of Rhetoric in the Americas. She is the recipient of the 2012 Braddock Award (with Brandy N?lani McDougall) for the article “Ma ka Hana ka ‘Ike (In the Work is the Knowledge): Kaona as Rhetorical Action.” Her current research focuses on place-based pedagogy and rhetoric in Hawai‘i as means to counter the narratives of colonization.