Strategies for interviewing with profs outside your area

[AurantiacaStella]

I know many of you are preparing for interviews. Do any veteran interviewees (or any one at all, really) have tips for interviewing with professors outside your specialty? For example, you specialize in science and literature and a Renaissance drama prof is interviewing you.

 

Will professors expect you to know their work and to be able to say something about it? What if you have none of the prerequisite knowledge required to understand their work?

 

Since there are such a variety of specialities within literature departments, I think this sort of situation could happen for many of us.

[cicada123]

I know many of you are preparing for interviews. Do any veteran interviewees (or any one at all, really) have tips for interviewing with professors outside your specialty? For example, you specialize in science and literature and a Renaissance drama prof is interviewing you.

 

Will professors expect you to know their work and to be able to say something about it? What if you have none of the prerequisite knowledge required to understand their work?

 

Since there are such a variety of specialities within literature departments, I think this sort of situation could happen for many of us.

I would like to know the same thing.