Dr. Meg Wesling

Associate Professor

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Biography

Meg Wesling is an Associate Professor in the Literatures department at the University of California, San Diego, and is affiliated with the Critical Gender Studies Program. She served as the faculty director of the UC Education Abroad Program in France from 2013 to 2015. She earned her doctorate in English from Cornell University and holds a bachelor's degree in French Women's Studies from Indiana University. Wesling has been recognized for her work with a year-long faculty fellowship from the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, and she is also a Hellman Faculty Research Fellow at UC San Diego. Her publication, "Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines," was released by NYU Press in April 2011, and has contributed extensively to the fields of American literature, sexuality studies, feminist theory, and queer theory through various essays and articles. Her academic work engages with themes of colonial education, queer diaspora, and modernism, among others.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of California, San Diego

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
TOEFL
Total
Required:85
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Duolingo
Overall Score
Required:120
Overall
Required:120
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in physical, biological, or earth sciences, mathematics, or engineering. Differential and integral calculus. One year of calculus-based physics with laboratory. One year of chemistry with laboratory.
Application Checklist
  • Statement of Purpose (max 2 pages)
  • Unofficial transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Curriculum Vitae (CV)
  • Application fee ($135 domestic / $155 international)
Specialization Notes

Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).