The McKenzie Lectures are a series of annual public lectures delivered by "a distinguished scholar on the history of the book, scholarly editing, or bibliography and the sociology of texts."[1] The lectures are held in Oxford at the Centre for the Study of the Book (Bodleian Libraries).[2] The series was inaugurated in 1996, in honour of Donald Francis McKenzie (1931–1999),[1] upon his retirement as Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, University of Oxford.[3]
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
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: 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
