Where are you going? What do you want to do? Who are you? Miller School’s Humanities Program Director and English teacher, Dr. Andy Eaton, has a good answer.

Humanities, Featured, Academics, alumniVirginiaFebruary 20, 2024humanities

Mia Martin: A Maverick in more ways than one

Mia Martin is a Maverick in more ways than one. Watch a new short film about her journey pursuing her passions at Miller School.

Featured, Leadership, Academics, Mission, Humanities, Performing Arts, TestimonialVirginiaFebruary 8, 2024humanities

Shakespeare on the Hill

Students showcase their individual talents and celebrate the wisdom that resonates in Shakespeare's timeless work during ESU Shakespeare Monologue competition.

Academics, Featured, News, HumanitiesVirginiaDecember 7, 2023Public Speaking, humanities

Legally Blonde Photos

Enjoy story and photos of Miller School of Albemarle’s performance of Legally Blonde The Musical.

Featured, Performing ArtsVirginiaOctober 31, 2023humanities

The Personal is Made Universal

Jay Kauffmann is on the verge of an exciting milestone in his literary career as he prepares to release his debut novel, The Mexican Messiah.

Faculty Unscripted, Featured, Academics, Mission, Humanities, FacultyVirginiaSeptember 16, 2023humanities

Maverick at Oxford

MSA English teacher and cross-country coach, Becca LaVoie, studies Romantic poetry at Exeter College at the University of Oxford.

Featured, Academics, alumniVirginiaAugust 29, 2023humanities

Catching Up with Anne Haney DeMelo

MSA Alumna returns to the Hill to shoot scenes for an upcoming film and looks back on her Miller School years. Interview and story by Lindsay Barnes, 11th Headmaster of Miller School.

Featured, alumni, Art, Humanities, MissionVirginiaAugust 25, 2023humanities

Success is Counted Sweetest

“I’ve always had lots of little perceptive thoughts about everything: flowers, fire hydrants, cracks on the sidewalk. They buzz around my brain like bees circling a honeycomb, and for a while I just sort of let them buzz about.”

Academics, Featured, MissionVirginiaMarch 31, 2023humanities

Lost in Translation

Utilizing the independent study program, Simon got caught up in his passion for Latin—to the point where you could say he was “lost in translation.”

Academics, FeaturedVirginiaMay 9, 2019ssc, humanities, signature

Poetic License

Literally and figuratively, Emily’s life has been one of poetry—and MSA’s unique focus on each student’s strength has given her the poetic license to succeed.

Academics, FeaturedVirginiaApril 10, 2019ssc, humanities, signature

A Portrait of the Scholar as a Young Man

Writing notes into the margins of books doesn’t normally make headlines, but what Tom Sun is doing goes to the heart of what MSA is about.

Academics, FeaturedVirginiaJanuary 23, 2019humanities, ssc

The Art of War

MSA senior develops his own theory of how to win a war during American Civil War seminar.

Academics, FeaturedVirginiaNovember 1, 2018ssc, humanities, rids

Power of Being Uncomfortable

Watch Zoe Ding’s powerful Senior Speech. “I was so glad that I had chosen to make myself uncomfortable, so, in the end, I could feel so comfortable with the results.”

Featured, AcademicsVirginiaOctober 28, 20182018, humanities, ssc

All Hands on Deck

What can Elvis Presley’s hair teach us about rhetoric and pedagogy? Students in Dr. Jason Nabi’s Advanced Placement Language and Composition class found out recently during an out-of-the-ordinary class.

Featured, AcademicsVirginiaApril 8, 2018humanities