(B.A. Smith College, 1974; Ph.D. Washington University,1982) has been Professor of German Studies at Cornell University since 1996, where she is also a Graduate Field member of Women's Studies, Jewish Studies, Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies,and Comparative Literature. She teaches modern German literature with an emphasis on literature since 1945, as well as critical, feminist, and postcolonial theories of culture and history. Before moving to Cornell, she taught at the Ohio State University from 1982 until 1996 and as a Visiting Professor at the University of California at Irvine in 1986. Her recent research focuses on minority discourses and migrant cultures in postwar Germany, especially those concerning Jews and Turks, and on interdisciplinary German cultural studies. Adelson's first book, Crisis of Subjectivity (1984), was the first scholarly monograph to deal with the literary prose of Botho Strauß. In 1994 the Modern Language Association of America awarded her the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Scholarly Study in the Field of Germanic Languages and Literatures for her book, Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German Identity(1994). Adelson held research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation in 1987 and 1992. For over a decade she has served on the editorial boards of the Women in German Yearbook, the German Quarterly, and the New German Critique. From 1992 through 1996 she also served on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on 20th Century German Literature. For her overall contributions to the field of postwar German cultural studies Adelson received the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in 1996.