in citizen relief running farms in the summer and soup kitchens in winter. Returning to America in 1919, he married Hélène Louise Buhlert of Boston. His health had suffered from the hardships in Romania and after recuperating in Maine, he was able to resume studies at Harvard taking his PhD in Romance Languages in 1922. Having initially specialised in Old French, he decided to devote himself to the Italian field especially the Cinquecento. He had started collecting sixteenth century Italian books whilst a student and described himself as a "bibliomaniac". Academic career University of Chicago In 1922, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr College and after five years accepted, in 1927, an Associate Professorship in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures in the University of Chicago. Professor William Nitze (father of Paul Nitze) described Bullock as "an enthusiastic and very effective teacher….and excellent research scholar. His library which he had accumulated with scrupulous care and at considerable financial sacrifice was one of the best in existence". He continued his interest in acting participating in the Quadrangle Players of Chicago and producing fortnightly plays. For many years he was Chairman of the Romance Section of the Modern Languages Association and established a Sede of the Dante Alighieri Society of Chicago. He was heavily involved supplying rotographs of rare European manuscripts to American scholars. In 1933, he was award the Cavaliere della Corona d'Italia by King Victor Emmanuel in recognition of his services to Italian Studies in America. His summers were often spent in Italy where he came to know the country and people well. University of Manchester In 1935, he was offered the Chair of Italian Studies at the University of Manchester. Relations between England and Italy were strained which made promotion of such studies difficult but he was undaunted. Shortly after his arrival, he was elected to the Italian Committee of the Modern Languages Association and was one of its most active members until the outbreak of War. In 1937, he realised, with the help of other scholars, his project of founding a quarterly review-–Italian Studies-–"planned as an English organ for the general furtherance, by publication or recording, of literary and scholarly work in the Italian field". The outbreak of War in 1939, and the intervention of Italy in 1940, forced Bullock to relinquish all his most cherished plans: contact with Italy became impossible and