Maya Hawke Goes Back to School

Two years ago, the singer and actor Maya Hawke spent a few weeks hanging around Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, where her younger brother, Levon, was a philosophy major. She was on hiatus from filming “Stranger Things”—the Netflix show on which she plays a band geek turned monster slayer—which prompted her to reflect on her lack of formal education. After graduating from St. Ann’s, an artsy private high school in Brooklyn, she enrolled at Juilliard but dropped out after a year, when her role in a “Little Women” miniseries...