Faculty Profile

James Duban

Title
Associate Dean
Department
Honors College
College
University of North Texas
Professor
English
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, Cornell University, 1976. 
Major: English
MA, Cornell University, 1975. 
Major: English
BA, University of Massachusetts, 1972. 
Major: English





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
No current or future courses scheduled.


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    HNRS 3996.002, Honors College Mentored Research Experience, Summer 10W 2023 
                    

                    HNRS 2900.001, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2023 
                    

                    HNRS 2900.001, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2022 
                    

                    HNRS 4900.002, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2022 
                    

                    HNRS 2900.001, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2021 
                    

                    HNRS 4900.002, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2021 
                    

                    HNRS 4100.001, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HNRS 2900.701, Special Problems, Fall 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    HNRS 2900.701, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2020 
                    

                    HNRS 2900.702, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2020 
                    

                    HNRS 4100.002, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    HNRS 2900.701, Special Problems, Fall 2019 Syllabus
                    

                    HNRS 2900.701, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2019 
                    

                    HNRS 4100.002, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2019  SPOT
                    

                    HNRS 2900.701, Special Problems, Fall 2018 
                    

                    HNRS 4100.001, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2018  SPOT
                    

                    HNRS 2900.701, Special Problems, Fall 2017 
                    

                    HNRS 4100.001, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2017  SPOT
                    

                    HNRS 2900.701, Special Problems, Fall 2016  SPOT
                    

                    HNRS 4100.001, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2016  SPOT
                    

                    HNRS 1500.003, Introduction to Research : An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Fall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    HNRS 4100.001, Honors Colloquium, Spring 2015 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3830.001, American Literature to 1870, Spring 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2012 
                    

                    ENGL 2500.002, Introduction to Literary Analysis and Interpretation Skills, Spring 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 4400.001, American Fiction, Fall 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2011 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2011 
                    

                    ENGL 5900.720, Special Problems, Spring 2011 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.002, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Spring 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2010 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.001, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Fall 2010 Syllabus
                    

                    ENGL 3923.001, American Jewish Writers, Spring 2010 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2010 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.002, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Spring 2010 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2009 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.001, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Fall 2009 
                    

                    ENGL 3923.001, American Jewish Writers, Spring 2009 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2009 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.002, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Spring 2009 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2008 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.001, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Fall 2008 
                    

                    ENGL 3923.001, American Jewish Writers, Spring 2008 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2008 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.001, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Spring 2008 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2007 
                    

                    HNRS 1000.001, Honors Freshman Seminar, Fall 2007 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.001, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Fall 2007 
                    

                    ENGL 4400.001, American Fiction, Summer 5W1 2007 
                    

                    ENGL 3923.001, American Jewish Writers, Spring 2007 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2007 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.001, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Spring 2007 
                    

                    ENGL 4400.001, American Fiction, Fall 2006 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2006 
                    

                    HNRS 1000.001, Honors Freshman Seminar, Fall 2006 
                    

                    ENGL 4400.001, American Fiction, Summer 5W1 2006 
                    

                    ENGL 4400.003, American Fiction, Spring 2006 
                    

                    ENGL 3923.001, American Jewish Writers, Spring 2006 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2006 
                    

                    ENGL 4400.001, American Fiction, Fall 2005 
                    

                    ENGL 6950.720, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2005 
                    

                    HNRS 1000.001, Honors Freshman Seminar, Fall 2005 
                    

                    ENGL 4400.001, American Fiction, Summer 5W1 2005 
                    

                    ENGL 4400.003, American Fiction, Spring 2005 
                    

                    ENGL 3923.001, American Jewish Writers, Spring 2005 
                    

                    ENGL 6942.720, Directed Research, Spring 2005 
                    

                    ENGL 6944.720, Directed Research, Spring 2005 
                    

                    ENGL 6941.720, Directed Research, Fall 2004 
                    

                    HNRS 1000.002, Honors Freshman Seminar, Fall 2004 
                    

                    ENGL 3830.001, Studies in American Literature to 1870, Fall 2004 

          


          
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  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
"Articles, Notes, or Chapters"
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. 
Duban, J.  (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.  (2022). "From Heideggerian Dasein to Melvillean Masquerade: Historiology and Imaginative Excursion in Philip Roth's The Facts". Philosophy and Literature. 43(2), 441-65. 
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.  (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. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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