Composer Walter Mays (right) joined the internationally known “Pro Arte Quartet” (from left, David Perry, violin, Suzanne Beia, violin, Sally Chisholm, violin and Parry Karp, violoncello) in a conversation/performance of his new “String Quartet No. 2” Feb. 10 in the E. Desmond and Mary Ann Lee Theater at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at UMSL. The picture, taken by campus photographer August Jennewein, is the latest to be featured at Eye on UMSL.
English alum Marty Ambrose builds on a lifelong love of poetry in the classroom and in her historical mysteries
Ambrose has written a trilogy on Claire Clairmont, a writer and the stepsister of Mary Shelley, as well as “The Lost Dresses of Italy,” which explores the life of Victorian poet Christina Rossetti.













