Delivered by Brent Peterson, Professor of German

This lecture on Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, delivered at Lawrence University on September 24, 2008, was designed for students and faculty in the college’s Freshman Studies program. Freshman Studies, a multidisciplinary introduction to the liberal arts, has been the cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum for over fifty years. The lecturer, Brent Peterson, Professor of German, is an expert in 19th-century German history and literature.