Webster Hall is the headquarters of Amherst’s departments of Russian, Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Theater and Dance, as well as its Creative Writing Program. On the first floor of Webster is
Studio 3, a venue for theater and dance performances.
On the second floor is the Center for Russian Culture, which draws scholars and Russophiles from around the globe to explore the world’s largest private collection of Russian manuscripts, periodicals, newspapers and rare books, donated to the College by 1937 graduate Thomas P. Whitney.