James Duban

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

"Articles, Notes, or Chapters"

• Duban, J. (2020). “Existential Revision in Philip Roth’s The Breast,” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 18.1 (2020): 83-99..
• Duban, J. (2019). “Heidegger, Sartre, and Irresolute Dasein in Philip Roth’s The Dying Animal, Everyman, and ‘Novotny’s Pain,’” Philosophy and Literature 43.2 (2019): 441-65..

Book

• Duban, J. (2005). Be a College Achiever: The Complete Guide to Academic Stardom. Victoria, Trafford Publishing.
• Duban, J. (2001). The Nature of True Virtue; Theology, Psychology, and Politics in the Writings of Henry James Sr., Henry James Jr., and William James. Madison, N.J.; London, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses.
• Guest Editor. (1989). Melville and His Narrators. 31 341-473. Texas Studies in Literature and Language.
• Duban, J. (1983). Melville's Major Fiction: Politics, Theology, and Imagination. DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press.

Book Chapter

• Duban, J. (2005). "The State of the Profession: A Guide to National Scholarship Advising" (a survey report: with Richard Badenhausen and Mary Engel),in Suzanne McCray, ed. Beyond Winning: National Scholarship Competitions and the Student Experience. 109-20. University of Arkansas Press.

Book Review

• Duban, J. (1998). Donald Kring's Herman Melville's Religious Journey. 71 150-52. New England Quarterly.
• Duban, J. (1995). Alfred Habegger's The Father; A Life of Henry James, Sr.. 68 333-36. New England Quarterly.
• Duban, J. (1991). Some Pilgrims Progress in Melville Studies. 37 71-78. ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance.
• Duban, J. (1986). Review of John P. McWilliams' Hawthorne, Melville, and the American Character. 40 468-76. Nineteenth-Century Fiction.

Journal Article

• Duban, J. (2025). Ready to twitch the Nymph’s last garment off, / and Moses with the tablets’”: Portnoy’s Complaint and Browning’s ‘The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church. Philip Roth Studies. 21 75-82.
• Duban, J. (2024). "Everything was Happing Simultaneously": Sartre, Heidegger, and Jung in Philip Roth's Patrimony. Philosophy and Literature. 48.2 259-277.
• Duban, J. (2024). Personificators’ and Dasein in Roth’s The Facts and in James’s ‘New York Revisited'. Philip Roth Studies. 20.2 106-123.
• Duban, J., Duban, J.M. (2023). "From Iliadic Integrity to Post-Machiavellian Spoils: James's The Ambassadors" (with Jeffrey M. Duban). Philosophy and Literature. 47.1 1-23.
• Duban, J. (2023). Obscure Desire: Goethe and the Imbalanced Pedagogy of What Maisie Knew. Arizona Quarterly. 79.4 23-48.
• Duban, J. (2023). Reading Himself and Others: Roth’s Why Write? and Sartre’s ‘Why Write'?. Philip Roth Studies. 19.1 25-38.
• Duban, J. (2022). "From Heideggerian Dasein to Melvillean Masquerade: Historiology and Imaginative Excursion in Philip Roth's The Facts". Philosophy and Literature. 46.1 52-67.
• Duban, J. (2022). "Testaments Betrayed: A Response to Those Wishing to Preserve Roth's Private Papers and Make Them Readily Available to Researchers". Philip Roth Studies. 18 (2) 84-87.
• Duban, J. (2022). Creative Christian Inquirers: Herman Melville and Henry Whitney Bellows. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 24.3 72-80.
• Duban, J. (2019). "A Conspiracy, Indeed: Maria Gostrey's Double Agency in Henry James's The Ambassadors,"Henry James Review 40.2 (2019):175-90. The Henry James Review.
• Duban, J. (2017). "Existential Kepesh and the Facticity of Existential Roth: 'The Breast: The Professor of Desire' and 'The Dying Animal'". 15 (2) 369-90.
• Duban, J. (2017). "Hawthorne, Mill and Sartre: Petrification and Tyranny in Roth's 'The Conversion of the Jews' and 'When She was Good". 52 (3) 107-31.
• Duban, J. (2017). "Sartre and Koestler: Bisociation, Nothingness, and the Creative Experience in Roth's The Anatomy Lesson". Philosophy and Literature. 41.1 (2017) 55-69.
• Duban, J. (2015). "From Negative Identity to Existential Nothingness: Philip Roth and the Younger Jewish Intellectuals,". Partial Answers: A Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas. 13 (1) 43-55.
• Duban, J. (2015). "Honest to One's Self: Censorship and Variants in American Editions of  Meyer Levin's In Search". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 33 (2) 27-52.
• Duban, J. (2015). "The Generalization of Holocost Denial: Meyer Levin, William James, and the Broadway Production of The Diary of Anne Frank,". Philosophy and Literature. A234-48.
• Duban, J. (2014). "'The Oracle of God Within': Human Nature and Personal Faith in the Epilogue to Clarel and Meville's Annotated Bible,". Literature and Theology. 28 (4) 425-37.
• Duban, J. (2014). "Eternity Looking through Time": Sartor Resartus and and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" . Philosophy and Literature.
• Duban, J. (2014). "Existential Nothingness: Sartrian Philosophy in the Fiction of Phillip Roth". Philip Roth Studies. 10 (1) 11-34.
• Duban, J. (2013). "How to Forgive, and Whom: Roth's Nemesis and Moby-Dick". Philip Roth Studies. 9 (2) 71-76.
• Duban, J. (2012). "'That Butcher, Imagination': Arthur Koestler and the Bisociated Narration of Philip Roth's Indignation". Philip Roth Studies. 8 (2) 145-60.
• Duban, J. (2012). "To Dazzle as Macbeth: Bisociated Drama in Philip Roth's The Humbling,". Comparative Drama. 46 (1) 1-16.
• Duban, J. (2011). "Meyer Levin and Arthur Koestler: Rationalization Post Factum in Roth's "Eli, the Fanatic'". Philip Roth Studies. 7 (2) 171-86.
• Duban, J. (2011). "Oceanic Wonder': Arthur Koesthler and Melville's Castaway.". Philosophy and Literature. 35 (2) 371-74.
• Duban, J. (2011). "Written, Unwritten, and Vastly Rewritten: Meyer Levin's In Search and Philip Roth's "Defender of the Faith," The Plot Against America, and Indignation.". Philip Roth Studies. 7 (2) 29-50.
• Duban, J. (2010). "'How to Hate, and Whom': Ahabian Ire in Roth's The Great American Novel and The Plot Against America,'". Philip Roth Studies. 6 (2) 131-51.
• Duban, J. (2009). 'A Reverent and Obedient Evolution': Jonathan Edwards, the New Science, and the Socialism of Henry James, Sr.. Journal of Speculative Philosophy. 23 244-61.
• Duban, J. (2009). 'Level Dead-Reckoning': Father Mapple, Goethe, and Ahab. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 11 (1) 74-79.
• Duban, J. (2007). 'Visible Objects of Reverence': Quotations from Goethe in Melville's Annotated New Testament and Psalms. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 9 (2) 3-23.
• Duban, J., Sallfors, S. (2005). A Phenomenal 'Occurrence' at Owl Creek Bridge: The Presence of Emanuel Swedenborg and Henry James, Sr. English Language Notes. 42 33-38.
• Duban, J. (2005). Pragmatism Lost: Moralism, Disinterestedness, and Swedenborgian 'Use'in the Philosophy of Henry James, Sr. Studia Swedenborgiana. 14 1-16.
• Duban, J. (2003). A Jamesian Analogue for Frost's 'Stopping by Wood on a Snowy Evening. Robert Frost Review. 13 76-79.
• Duban, J., Sallfors, S. (2003). Chaucerian Humor in Moby-Dick: Queequeg's Ramadan. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 5 73-77.
• Duban, J. (2002). Being Jewish in the Twentieth Century; The Synchronicity of Roth and Hawthorne. Studies in American Jewish Literature. 21 1-11.
• Duban, J. (2002). John Walker and the Early Edwardsianism of Henry James, Sr.. New England Quarterly. 75 276-85.
• Duban, J. (1999). The Craft of Faith; A Shakespearean Echo in Melville's Clarel. Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. 1 79-82.
• Duban, J. (1996). Henry James, Sr., Darwin, and "Evolution'. Harvard Library Bulletin. 7 45-62.
• Duban, J. (1993). The Diptych and Social Inquiry in Melville's 'Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs'. New England Quarterly. 66 74-86.
• Duban, J. (1991). From Bethlehem to Tahiti: Transcultural 'Hope' in Melville's Clarel. Philological Quarterly. 70 475-83.
• Duban, J., Scheick, W. (1990). The Commodious 'Life-Preserver' in Melville's The Confidence-Man. American Literature. 62 306-09.
• Duban, J., Scheick, W. (1990). The Dramatis Personae of Robert Browning and Herman Melville. Criticism. 32 221-40.
• Duban, J. (1989). Chipping with a Chisel: The Ideology of Melville's Narrators. Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 31 341-85.
• Duban, J. (1988). From Emerson to Edwards: Henry Whitney Bellows and an 'Ideal' Metaphysics of Sovereignty. Harvard Theological Review. 81 389-411.
• Duban, J. (1988). Melville and the New York Christian Inquirer, 1847-57. Melville Society Extracts. 73 5-7.
• Duban, J. (1987). Conscience and Consciousness; the Liberal Christian Context of Thoreau's Political Ethics. New England Quarterly. 60 208-22.
• Duban, J. (1986). 'This All Feeling': Melville, Norton, and Schleiermacher. English Language Notes. 23 38-42.
• Duban, J. (1983). Robins and Robinarchs in Hawthorne's 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux'. Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 38 271-88.
• Duban, J. (1983). Thoreau, Garrison, and Dymond: Unbending Firmness of the Mind. Nineteenth-Century Fiction. 38 271-88.
• Duban, J. (1982). 'A Pantomime of Action': Starbuck and American Whig Dissidence. New England Quarterly. 55 432-39.
• Duban, J. (1981). Melville's Use of Irving's Knickerbocker History in White Jacket. Melville Society Extracts. 4 (6) 1, 4-6.
• Duban, J. (1979). Satiric Precedent for Melville's 'The Two Temples'. American Transcendental Quarterly. 42 137-47.
• Duban, J. (1979). The Triumph of Infidelity in Hawthorne's 'The Story Teller'. Studies in American Fiction. 7 49-60.
• Duban, J. (1977). The Spenserian Maze of Melville's Pierre. Emerson Society Quarterly. 23 217-25.
• Duban, J. (1977). The Translation of Pierre Bayle's An Historical and Critical Dictionary Owned by Melville. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 71 347-51.
• Duban, J., Clark, Jr., E.F. (1976). Hawthorne's Debt to Edmund Spenser and Charles Chauncy in 'The Gentle Boy'. Nathaniel Hawthorne Journal. 189-95. Englewood, Co.,
• Duban, J. (1976). The Sceptical Context of Hawthorne's 'Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe'. American Literature. 48 292-301.

Volume Edited

• Duban, J. (2016). Social Circumstances and Aesthetic Achievement: Contextual Studies in Richard Wright's Native Son: A Collection of Essays by Honors College Students. Denton, TX, UNT Eagle Editions.
• Duban, J. (1989). Melville and His Narrators." Guest Editor. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 31 (1989). 341-473.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Teaching

• Duban, J. (Principal), Caffrey, K.N. (Other), "The University of North Texas Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, 2018-2022," sponsored by U.S. Department of Education, FED, Funded. (2017 - 2022).