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Don't stress too much about interviews! I had two and they were both pretty informal. If you have a foreign language, they might want to speak with you in that language to make sure you can teach. That's the only part that threw me off a bit since I haven't used my German in a while. Anyway, best of luck!

Thank you soooo much for your responses! I graduated as one of the four comp lit majors from my college, so it's definitely great to see that there are other people out there wanting the same thing! Good luck everybody & try not to check the result page too much. No matter what happens in February everything will work out at the end of the day!

@Crow T. Robot Good luck with Duke! I still haven't heard back from them...was it a panel interview?

@jelris Good luck with your interview! I definitely over-prepared for mine haha

@Crow T. Robot Congrats! My research supervisor went to UMN for undergrad and told me it's a great place to live in! I didn't apply because of the cold Have you heard back from Duke yet?

@Jožin z bažin Hey! I applied to a whole bunch of schools! I think in general they're tougher on international applicants so I didn't want to risk it. Here's my list: UPenn, Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSB, UC Irvine, Duke (Literature), Rutgers, NYU, Oregon, UCSD, U Toronto, USC, Harvard I think it's 14 in total. So I just had my UCSB interview this afternoon with Professor Elisabeth Weber - apparently she's one of the two people in charge of the program She gave me a German test to see if I can TA for a first-year German class, and that's basically it. I'd say she talked during most of it and the whole thing was very informal. In the end she connected me to a current grad student so that I could learn more about the program. Oh and she mentioned a campus visit at the end of February so I assume they'll let us know before then. Good luck!

Thanks for sharing! I'm also interested in trauma studies and applied to Stanford (AND am not hoping to get in). I went to UVA for undergrad! We have a really good English program and my advisor (Paul Cantor) was just complaining about reading applications a few days ago haha. I applied to Rutgers and NYU for comp lit as well, so maybe we'll end up at the same school Good luck with everything!

Hey! Was just wondering if anyone else is applying to comp lit programs and is waiting for results...I'm curious about where you've applied to and whether you've heard back yet. I got an interview invitation (Skype) from UC Santa Barbara last week, but didn't hear back from any other schools I applied to. I'm an international student with a BA in comp lit at an American school. My area is Chinese & German modernism, feminism, and psychoanalysis. Good luck everybody & would be nice to hear from someone! I'm getting more and more nervous haha Have a nice day!

Hi! So I'm an applicant to Ph.D. programs in comparative literature and just got a short email from the DGS at UC Santa Barbara. It basically says that the admissions committee think I'm a good fit for the program and asked if I'd be able to talk in the next few days. Is that an interview request? I was told by my professors that most schools don't do interviews for my program, so I am very confused. She said I could do either a phone call or Skype. I'm assuming that means I'll only be talking with one person? Anyways, any advice would be really really helpful! THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!