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Professor Adelson’s teaching and research concentrate on German literature from 1945 to the present and additionally reflect interdisciplinary as well as transnational approaches to culture and history. Her focal interests include German literature of the post-war and post-socialist eras, emergent literatures often associated with minority and migrant populations (especially regarding Jews and Turks), and postcolonial theories of difference and approximation. Additional research and teaching projects revolve around futurity and experiments in narrative form in German literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, especially in the prose miniatures of Alexander Kluge. The Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies, Adelson is both former chair of the Department of German Studies and former director of Cornell’s interdisciplinary Institute for German Cultural Studies. She belongs to the graduate fields in German Studies, Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, as well as Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies. She additionally serves on the International Advisory Boards for the Contemporary Comparative Literatures book series with Palgrave Press, the Stauffenburg Verlag's Discussion Series on Inter- und Multikultur, as well as Stauffenburg Verlag's Studies in Contemporary German Literature. A contributing editor for New German Critique since 1983, she assists many other presses, journals, and research organizations with scholarly evaluations as well.