Daniel Levin Becker[A] (born 1984 in Chicago) is an American writer, translator and musical critic.

He was elected after a Fulbright year spent organizing and indexing that group's archives.

He is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature, published in April 2012 by Harvard University Press.

[citation needed] He has translated from the French texts including Georges Perec's dream journal La Boutique Obscure and Hervé Le Tellier's short story "A Few Musketeers," as well as Georges Perec, Oulibiographer by Bernard Magné[9] and Letter from the Author to his Editor by Marcel Bénabou.

He was also the youngest member and songwriter for the project band Mujeres Encinta that he joined when he was only a teenager.