She encourages her students to not just read the text, but to experience it – and talks of ways to bring Shakespeare “to its feet.” With her own research extending beyond the English department and ...

Happy New Year and welcome back to campus for the start of a new term. I hope you enjoyed a peaceful and restorative break. In December, I shared highlights of the past calendar year at Washington and ...

Washington and Lee’s libraries and museums support the University’s educational mission by providing a wide range of materials for teaching, learning, and research. Our library and museum ...

Washington and Lee is home to a variety of academic centers that support interdisciplinary inquiry, global exploration, community engagement, and teaching and learning. The Connolly Center for ...

Founded in 1749 as Augusta Academy in Augusta County, Virginia, Washington and Lee University is the ninth-oldest college in the United States. For close to a century, specific chapters of the ...

Plans for Washington and Lee University’s Institutional History Museum are beginning to take shape. The university intends to build the new museum on an area of campus located near the intersection of ...

The Jim Stump Prize in German honors a devoted alumnus of the Class of 1953. It is awarded annually, at the discretion of the Department of German and Russian, to an undergraduate of exceptional ...

Rupke teaches courses in the history of “science, politics and the public good,” dealing with animal behavior as it relates to human morality, with Darwin and his critics, scientists as political ...

Completed in 1868 at the request of Washington College President Robert E. Lee, University Chapel (first known as “the College Chapel”) has been a gathering place for the campus community since its ...

History 107 History of the United States to 1876 History 108 History of the United States Since 1876 History 150 Seminar in American History for Freshmen and Sophomores History 343 The United States, ...