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Thank you!!! And yes I should’ve been clearer, my bad: I have an MA, got it in 2020 and took a break (you know, the world) but decided to try applying this year. Both my BA and MA are in lit (“foreign lit” but mostly English) and are from non-US institutions, so I’m not sure how it would be categorized by the committee. My interests are a bit all over the place: my MA thesis was on film and my statement is on the intersection of cultural history, postwar German & Japanese fiction & film. While I mentioned both Japan and Germany in my SOP, atm I’m more comfortable dealing with Japanese now as I only have B1 German and am *very* rusty since I didn’t touch anything German for more than a year. What worries me the most now is that in my application I listed two professors (one doing memory studies and the other Japanese studies), but the ones who will be meeting with me are the memory studies prof and a prof from German (and they said part of the interview would be in German, too). The interview was supposed to be on Friday (!) but I couldn’t make it so now it’s on Monday - either way, not enough time to do anything other than re-read all my documents, I guess? (And I really don’t know what they expect re: German so I’m worried I would blank out when they start talking in German… will try to work on this as well)

Hi everyone, New here, just got an invite for an interview with UIUC’s complit and I’m wondering if anyone has interviewed with them/has any advice. What should I keep in mind? What questions should I ask? I listed two faculty members that I would like to work with in my application, but only one of them is going to be present at the interview – the other prof at the interview is someone who’s also related to my interests, yes, but from a field I’m less familiar with. On top of that, I really didn’t expect them to work this fast and I’m still working on several other applications (that are making me very anxious), so any advice would be great. Thanks!