Delivered annually by a distinguished scholar on the history of the book, scholarly editing, or bibliography and the sociology of texts, the McKenzie lectures were inaugurated in 1996, in honour of Professor Donald Francis McKenzie (1931-1999), Professor of Bibliography & Textual Criticism at the University of Oxford, 1989-1996. Past lectures are listed below.
1997 Roger Chartier: Foucault’s Chiasmus: Authorship between Science and Literature
1998 Joseph Viscomi: Blake’s Graphic Imagination: the Technical and Aesthetic Origins of Blake’s Illuminated Books
1999 Lawrence Rainey: The Cultural Economy of Modernism
2000 Harold Love: The Intellectual Heritage of Donald Francis McKenzie
2001 Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: Women’s Literary History by Electronic Means. the creation and communication of meaning in the Orlando Project
2002 Paul Needham: The Discovery and Invention of the Gutenberg Bible
2003 Laurel Brake: 'Daily Calendars of Roguery and Woe’. The Politics of Print in 19th-century Britain
2004 Graham Shaw: In or Out? — South Asia and a Global History of the Book
2005 John Barnard: Keats and Posterity: Manuscript, Print, and Readers
2006 Gary Taylor: The Man Who Made Shakespeare. England’s First Literary Publisher
2007 Robert Darnton: Bohemians before Bohemianism: Grub Street Libertines in Paris and London 1770–1789 — Keats and Posterity; Manuscript, Print, and Readers
2008 Isabel Hofmeyr [sw]: Gandhi’s Printing Press: Print Cultures in the Indian Ocean
2009 Jerome McGann: Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the Transmission of Culture
