Please pardon my dumb -- you are going for an (additional?) MA, or a PhD? "Comp Lit" is raising my alarm bells -- I think, for, me, applying for it at the PhD level was an error. Most US Comp Lit programs require at least two (and sometimes three) languages beyond your native tongue, one of them classical (Greek, Latin, etc.). (The MA level only required one.) Right now I wish I'd sent out apps for straight up English/Lit degrees back in 2010. (Especially since the comparisons I wanted to make did NOT require that many languages. I could have done the same project possibly without the ego blows.)
Have you checked to see whether you are qualified to teach German *right now*? Would you be willing to teach at high-school level while levelling up your qualifications? (Granted there is less call for German than for the more popular of the Romance languages.)
Also consider that even if you think yourself weak or short of a requirement or two, universities are looking at the big picture and if you're superstrong in the more relevant areas they might very well take you anyway (and your German creds look superstrong to me). You could just *apply* exactly where you want to go and see what happens.
Have you emailed any possible contacts at your preferred schools for advice? Forgive me if you've already answered these questions here or elsewhere, I've been in-it and out-of-it, so to speak, intermittently in the past few months.
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Have you checked to see whether you are qualified to teach German *right now*? Would you be willing to teach at high-school level while levelling up your qualifications? (Granted there is less call for German than for the more popular of the Romance languages.)
Also consider that even if you think yourself weak or short of a requirement or two, universities are looking at the big picture and if you're superstrong in the more relevant areas they might very well take you anyway (and your German creds look superstrong to me). You could just *apply* exactly where you want to go and see what happens.
Have you emailed any possible contacts at your preferred schools for advice? Forgive me if you've already answered these questions here or elsewhere, I've been in-it and out-of-it, so to speak, intermittently in the past few months.