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annual report XXV Departmental Notes During the first term the department had as Visiting Fulbright Pro- fessor to lecture on American Literature Professor Spencer of Ohio Wesleyan University We are very grateful for his genial encourage- ment In January Mr Ε Mottram took up his post as Lecturer in American Literature and the future of the subject now seems secure Mr Mutter spent the session in teaching and research in the University of California Los Angeles section Professor Bullough gave the Alexander Lectures at Toronto University in October 1959 and visited several other universities in- eluding St John's Newfoundland He delivered four intercollegiate lectures and took part in the two summer schools for foreigners in the University of London He also lectured on Eliot as play- wright at the Sheffield Playhouse Professor Garmonsway gave course of intercollegiate lectures on Some aspects of the religion and ethics of the early Teutonic peoples Mr Crow gave lecture on John Payne Collier to Nottingham University English Society and the Nottingham Branch of the English Association and one on Samuel Johnson as editor of Shakespeare to the Johnson Society of London He delivered four intercollegiate lectures on London publishing 1593-1623 He appeared on tele- vision in discussion in Bookman Dr Armstrong gave four intercollegiate lectures in the Michael- mas term on The playwright as producer in the 20th century In the same term he acted as Adjudicator in the University of London Intercollegiate Debating Competition He lectured on Tudor Prose as part of the course on The Arts in Tudor England at the City Literary Institute in January and gave an illustrated lecture on The Restoration theatre at Cumberland Lodge in July Mr Yarker was Director of Studies in Literature to the Uni- versity of London Summer School in Literature art and social change in nineteenth century England Mr Waldron gave lecture on The place of language studies in an English course at Cumberland Lodge in November 1959 and University Extension Lecture on Middle English literature as part of course on The Arts in medieval England at the City Literary Institute Mr Ε Mottram gave two broadcasts on Modern American novelists in November 1959 He lectured on American writing in the fifties and Jazz 1900 to 1960 at the Conference on Modern America Zeist Netherlands in April 1960 In the summer vacation he took part in the Foreign Specialist Exchange Programme in the United States including the Breadloaf Summer School and visited many places of literary interest Mr Shaw gave lecture in January to the May Archaeological