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I've tried looking this up online in other places, and can't seem to find an answer about this very common academic cultural issue. In choosing advisors as an English Literature PhD, I know that it is obviously better if you can choose full Professors, but can one also have Associate Professors on one's dissertation committee? I'm trying to weed through graduate schools at the moment, and some have Associate Professors who align with my research insterests, but no to little full Professors who do.

Thanks everyone, this is helpful. I've also contacted some current grad. students and a professor, and all have more or less veered in the direction that department requirements for foreign languages on many websites tend to sound more daunting than they are, and that foreign language experience often is only of one language and rudimentary. Learning a new language, in addition to sharpening another, doesn't sound like it would be too much of a problem.

I'm fairly new to this forum. Essentially, my question pertains to the fact that I've begun applying to graduate schools for next year and I've noticed that many (such as UNC, Rutgers, etc), require proficiency in two foreign languages, but that this requirement doesn't have to be fulfilled until midway or near the end of the PhD program. I have working knowledge with one foreign language, which I plan on studying up so that I can at least be able to read some novels, albeit still some reliance on a dictionary, by the time next fall. However, that is it - I have no experience beyond this one language. Do graduate schools like this generally allow sufficient space to learn an additional language, from scratch, if needed, or would this be too much when considering the rest of a typical graduate course/teaching load? Grateful for any responses with knowledge on this. I'm getting pretty tired of speculating on whether this is a critical area based on what I've read so far online and what I see on schools' websites. I'd like to hope that I don't - since I'm not applying for a comparative literature degree, and can stay mostly within my American and British areas.