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).
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).