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Chained Bible in Cumnor Church
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Joseph E. Becker, PhD
Associate Professor of English & Comparative Literature

Director, Haenssler Honors Program
University of Maine at Fort Kent 
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Joseph E. Becker
Photo: Joanna Becker, 2011

E-mail
Phone
207-834-7588

Office
203 Haenssler Honors Center
(See linked Campus Map for location)

Fax
207-834-7577
Curriculum Vita
(academic resumé)
Locus Eclecticus
(personal website)
Areas of Research / Interest
Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Archetypal Literary Criticism,
Comparative Literature, Comparative Mythology, Comparative Religion
Meteorological, Astronomical, & Geological, Information
The Aroostook Review -- The English Program's Online Literary Journal
Geraldine Cannon Becker, Editor-in-Chief
"I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think."
Socrates
Greek philosopher (470 BCE - 399 BCE)

Teaching Schedule Spring 2013
LEC
COURSE
SECTION
COURSE TITLE
TIME
DAY
LOCATION
12781
ENG 101
0001
English Composition II
8:00-9:20 am
Monday/Thursday
Cyr 200
12780
ENG 101
2001
English Composition II
Asynchronous
Asynchronous
Online
12807
ENG 101
0005
English Composition II
12:30-1:50 pm
Tuesday/Friday
Old Model School 11
(Basement ITV Room)
13013
ENG 240
0001
Special Topics: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
3:30-4:50 pm
Monday/Thursday
Cyr 200

World Literature

Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
(b. 1947)
British Indian novelist & essayist

Lao Tzu
Lao Tzu
(ancient China)
Taoist Sage & author of the Tao te Ching

Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
English poet & playwright

Valmiki
Valmiki
(ancient India)
Poet & composer of the Ramayana


James Joyce
(1882-1941)
Irish novelist & poet
Gabriel García Marquez
(b. 1927)
Columbian novelist & short story writer

Chinua Achebe
(b. 1930)
Nigerian novelist & critic

Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
(1875-1955)
German novelist & short story writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)
German poet, novelist &  polymath
V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
(b. 1932)
Indian-British-Trinidadian novelist

Rabindranath Tagore
(1861-1941)
Bengali novelist, poet & polymath

Virinia Woolf
(1882-1941)
British novelist & short story writer
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
Astrophysicist and Science Author (1934 - 1996)
Each day, The Writer's Almanac features Garrison Keillor as he recounts the highlights of this day in history and reads a short poem or two.

News and Public Affairs

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Inclusion of links does not indicate or imply approval or endorsement of the opinions or contents contained on linked websites.

The Maine Public Broadcasting Network serves Maine and also reaches most of New Brunswick, Canada, and parts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

St. John Valley Times

Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
The New York Times
Bangor Daily News
The Boston Globe


ABC / AP / BBC / CBC / CBS / CNN / Fox News / Google / MSNBC / NPR / Reuters / CBSMarkets / Al Jazeera / NECN

Newspapers

Magazines

American Conservative | American Enterprise | American Heritage | American Journal Rev | American Prospect | American Scientist | American Spectator | Art News Online | Artforum | Boston Globe Ideas | Boston Review | The Bulletin | Chronicle of Higher Education | Chronicle of Philanthropy | CIA Studies | City Journal | Columbia Journal Rev | Commentary | Common-place | Cross Currents | Discover | Dissent | The Economist | First Things | Foreign Affairs | Foreign Policy | The Gramophone | Granta | Hoover Digest | Hudson Review | In Character | Independent Review | In These Times | Le Monde Diplo | Legal Affairs | Monthly Review | Mother Jones | Ms. Magazine | The Nation. | National Journal | National Review | New Criterion | New Humanist | New Left Review | New Republic | New Scientist | New York Magazine | New York Observer | New York Press | NY Times Magazine | New Yorker | Newsweek | Philosophers' Mag | Philosophy & Literature | Philosophy Now | Physics Today | Poets & Writers | Policy | Policy Review | The Progressive | Prospect | Reason | Salon | Scientific American | Sign and Sight | Skeptical Inquirer | Slate | The Spectator | Der Spiegel | Threepenny Review | Tikkun | Time Magazine | US News & World Report | Utne Reader | Village Voice | WSJ Opinion | The Walrus | Washington Monthly | Weekly Standard | Wilson Quarterly | Wired

Book Reviews

BBC Books | Books & Culture | Bookforum | Boston Globe Books | Chicago Trib Books | Chronicle Review | Claremont Review | Common Review | Complete Review | CS Monitor Books | Globe & Mail Books | Guardian Lit News | Guardian Books | The Hindu Books | Independent Books | January Magazine | Kirkus Reviews | Literary Review | London Review | London Times Books | Los Angeles Times | Melbourne Age | New Republic Books | NYRB | NY Times Books | Newsday Books | Philly Inquirer Books | Salon Books | SF Chronicle Books | Spectator Books | Telegraph Books | The TLS | Village Voice | Washington Post | Washington Times | Wilson Quarterly | Yale Book Review

Columnists

Eric Alterman | Anne Applebaum | Timothy Garton Ash | Bruce Bawer | Alex Beam | James Bowman | Robert Boynton | Samuel Brittan | David Brooks | Art Buchwald | William F. Buckley | Jon Carroll | Noam Chomsky | Alexander Cockburn | Joe Conason | Miranda Devine | E. J. Dionne Jr. | Michael Dirda | Maureen Dowd | Roger Ebert | Michael Elliott | Robert Fisk | Thomas Friedman | Robert Fulford | Frank Furedi | Malcolm Gladwell | Ellen Goodman | Victor Davis Hanson | Johann Hari | Jeet Heer | Nat Hentoff | Jan Herman | Jim Hightower | Christopher Hitchens | David Horowitz | Molly Ivins | Jeff Jacoby | Leon Jaroff | Robert Kagan | Tony Karon | Mickey Kaus | Michael Kinsley | Joe Klein | Martin Kramer | Morton Kondracke | Chas Krauthammer | Paul Krugman | Howard Kurtz | Norman Lebrecht | John Leo | James Lileks | Kevin Maney | Salim Mansour | Paddy McGuinness | Mark Morford | Robert Novak | Brendan O'Neill | Daniel Pipes | Katha Pollitt | Virginia Postrel | William Powers | Dorothy Rabinowitz | Jonathan Rauch | Roger Sandall | William Shawcross | Sam Smith | Thomas Sowell | Mark Steyn | Andrew Sullivan | Tunku Varadarajan | David Warren | George Will | Keith Windschuttle | Jonathan Yardley | J. Peder Zane

Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
(1809 - 1882)
British Naturalist, Author
The Origin of Species
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