In addition to the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-German literature, his interests reach into other areas of European culture, especially classical antiquity and its various receptions.
Joel B. Lande is Associate Professor of German at Princeton University. In addition to the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-German literature, his interests reach into other areas of European culture, especially classical antiquity and its various receptions. He is the author of Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature (Cornell University Press, 2018) and the co-editor with Denis Feeney of How Literatures Begin: A Global History (Princeton University Press, 2021).