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detail from the cover of Professor Katharine Charles' latest book, showing an illustration of a woman reading with a ship in the background

Losing the Plot, Gaining Perspective

02/03/2026

The interpolated tale, or “tale-within-a-tale,” was a common form of the 18th-century novel and is the focus of "Lost Plots: Interpolated Tales and the Eighteenth-Century Novel," a new book out by Katherine G. Charles, associate professor of 18th- and 19th-century literature and the director of Washington's iconic Kiplin Hall program.

Tshazi Kamau kicks the ball during a men's soccer game

An Unexpected Home

01/29/2026

Tshazi Kamau ’27 was a standout soccer player from an early age and even represented his country, Kenya, at the youth level. Today, as he recovers from minor knee surgery, he is a key central midfielder for Washington College men’s soccer, a business management major, a marketing minor, and very much at home in Chestertown.

Washington College Collects artifacts are pulled from nearly 250 years of archival work.

Unearthing Two Centuries of Stories

01/22/2026

"Washington College Collects" Opens at Kohl Gallery; Public is Invited to Bring Artifacts for Special Evening ‘Heirloom Surgery’ Event

Phaedra Michelle Scott sits in front of portraits of Norma Miller, subject of her play, Stompin' at the Savoy

Phaedra Michelle Scott '14 Comes Home

01/05/2026

Since graduating from Washington with a double major in history and theatre, most of Scott’s writing projects have been inspired by historical events. The power of theatre to imbue historical events with emotional power is one of the things that she values about the art form. Her latest work had its world premiere at at the Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington, Scott’s hometown, last year, and her next world premiere is in February in Philadelphia.

Biology professor Martin Connaughton looks at the camera through a fish tank

Sounds Fishy

12/18/2025

Five fantastic fish have marked milestones in a professor Martin Connaughton’s teaching career.