Dr. John McBratney has been a professor at John Carroll University for nearly 35 years, specializing in Victorian literature and colonial and postcolonial literature. He is the author of "Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space: Rudyard Kipling's Fiction of the Native-Born" (2002), numerous articles, reviews, and poetry. His dedication to his craft of teaching, his meticulous attention to student writing, his passion for the Humanities, and his integrity were remarkable. He will be missed when he retires at the end of the semester.