John McBratney
Lecturer
Background
Grew up in South Dartmouth, MA
Peace Corps in Thailand: 1975-78
Teaching English literature and writing at JCU: 1988-2024
Teaching English as a Second Language at HOLA, Painesville, OH: 2024-present
Married to Brigitte Brunhart (1988-2006), Elizabeth Cline (2010-present)
Children: Indra and Kumar
Areas of Expertise
- Teaching
- writing in various genres
- dabbling in foreign languages
Research Interests
Victorian literature
Colonial and postcolonial literature
Cosmopolitanism in Victorian literature
Detective fiction
Medicine in history and literature
Education
B.A. Dartmouth College (English): 1973Certification in Sec. Ed. (English & Biology) University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth: 1975
M.A., Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (English): 1980, 1987
Courses Taught
Victorian literatureRomantic literature
Colonial and postcolonial literature
Cosmopolitanism in literature
Indian literature
Detective fiction
Children's literature
Writing
Publications
Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space: Rudyard Kipling’s Fiction of the Native-Born. Ohio State UP, 2002.
“Dhai, Ayah, and Anglo-Indian Mother: Rivalry in the Nursery in Nineteenth-Century British India.” Forthcoming in The Canadian Journal of Health History.
“‘Britons, Hold Your Own’: Music and Empire at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886.” Forthcoming in Victorian Music and Culture: The Lost Chord Resounded, edited by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre. Clemson UP.
“Love in a Time of Extinction: Poetic Category and Temporal Impasse in Robert Browning’s ‘Love Among the Ruins.’” Victorian Poetry, vol. 61, no. 3, Fall 2023, pp. 267–83. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2023.a915651.
“‘We Are All Getting Liberal Now’: The Cosmopolitan Critique of British Liberalism in Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone.” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, no. 124, Winter 2022, pp. 134-151.
“Kipling Studies in the Twenty-First Century.” The Kipling Journal, vol. 95, no. 387, September 2021, pp. 10-19.
“The Failure of Dickens’s Transatlantic Vision in American Notes.” Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World, edited by Christine DeVine, Ashgate, 2013, pp. 69-85.
“India and Empire.” Cambridge Companion to Rudyard Kipling, edited by Howard J. Booth, Cambridge UP, 2011, pp. 23-36.
“The Return and Rescue of the Émigré in Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities.” Victorian Settler Narratives: Emigrants, Cosmopolitans and Returnees in Nineteenth-Century Literature, edited by Tamara S. Wagner, Pickering & Chatto, 2011, pp. 99-109.
“Reluctant Cosmopolitanism in Dickens’s Great Expectations. Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 38, no.2, 2010, pp. 529-46.
“‘What Connexion Can There Be?’: Detection in Dickens’s Bleak House.” Victorian Secrecy: Economies of Knowledge and Concealment, edited by Albert D. Pionke and Denise Tischler Millstein, Ashgate, 2010, pp. 59-73.
“Racial and Criminal Types: Indian Ethnography and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 33, 2005, pp. 149-67.
“Imperial Theatricality in British India from Rudyard Kipling to George Orwell.” South Asian Review, vol. 25, 2004, pp. 16-38.
“India’s ‘Hundred Voices’: Subaltern Oral Performance in Forster’s A Passage to India.” Oral Tradition, vol. 17, 2002, pp. 108-34.
“‘Strange Medley[s]’: Ambiguities of Role, Purpose and Representation in Kipling=s From Sea to Sea.” Negotiating India in the Nineteenth-Century Media, edited by David Finkelstein and Douglas M. Peers, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 164-84.
“Passing and the Modern Persona in Kipling’s Ethnographer Fiction.” Victorian Literature and Culture, vol. 24, 1998, pp. 31-50.
“Rebuilding Akbar’s ‘Fane’: Tennyson and the British Reclamation of the East.” Victorian Poetry, vol. 31, 1993, pp. 411-17.
“Imperial Subjects, Imperial Space in Kipling’s Jungle Book.” Victorian Studies, vol. 35, 1992, pp. 277-93.
“Lovers Beyond the Pale: Images of Indian Women in Kipling’s Tales of Miscegenation.” Works and Days, vol. 8, no. 1, 1990, pp. 17-36.
“The Raj Is All the Rage: Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet and Colonial Nostalgia.” NDQ (North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 3, 1987, pp. 204-09.
