The McKenzie Lectures are a series of annual public lectures delivered by "a distinguished scholar on the

history of the book The history of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Contributors to the discipline include specialists from the fields of textual scholarship, codicology, bibliography, philology, palaeography, art history, social h ...

, scholarly editing, or bibliography and the sociology of texts". The lectures are held in Oxford at the Centre for the Study of the Book (

Bodleian Libraries The Bodleian Libraries are a collection of 28 libraries that serve the University of Oxford in England, including the Bodleian Library itself, as well as many other (but not all) central and faculty libraries. As of the 2016–17 year, the librari ...

). The series was inaugurated in 1996, in honour of Donald Francis McKenzie (1931–1999

upon his retirement as Professor of

Bibliography Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

and

Textual Criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in ...

, University of Oxford.

Lectures

* 1996

David McKitterick David John McKitterick, (born 9 January 1948) is an English librarian and academic, who was Librarian and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Early life and education McKitterick was born on 9 January 1948 to the Revd Canon J. H. B. McKitteri ...

: ''Printers in the Marketplace'' * 1997

Roger Chartier Roger Chartier, (born December 9, 1945 in Lyon), is a French historian and historiographer who is part of the Annales school. He works on the history of books, publishing and reading. He teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Soc ...

: ''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

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'' * 2002

Paul Needham Paul Needham may refer to: *Paul Needham (librarian) Paul Needham (born 1943) is an American academic librarian. From 1998 to 2020, he worked at the Scheide Library at Princeton University. A Guggenheim Fellow and Bibliographical Society Gold ...

: ''The Discovery and Invention of the

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'' * 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 Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016. Life Darnton was born in New Yor ...

: ''Bohemians before Bohemianism: Grub Street Libertines in Paris and London 1770–1789 — Keats and Posterity; Manuscript, Print, and Readers'' * 2008 : ''Gandhi’s Printing Press: Print Cultures in the Indian Ocean'' * 2009

Jerome McGann Jerome John McGann (born July 22, 1937) is an American academic and textual scholar whose work focuses on the history of literature and culture from the late eighteenth century to the present. Career Educated at Le Moyne College ( B.S. 1959), S ...

: ''Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the Transmission of Culture'' * 2010

Henry Woudhuysen Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature. He is the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, having been appointed in 2012. He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Arts and ...

: '' A. W. Pollard (1859–1944): Friends and Fine Printing'' * 2011 Paul Eggert: ''Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature'' * 2012 John B. Thompson: ''Merchants of Culture'' * 2013

Xu Bing Xu Bing (; born 1955) is a Chinese artist who served as vice-president of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is known for his printmaking skills and installation art, as well as his creative artistic use of language, words, and text and how t ...

: ''The Sort of Artist I Am'' * 2014 William Noel: ''Bibliography in Bits: the study of books in the twenty-first century'' * 2015

Sheldon Pollock Sheldon I. Pollock (born 1948) is an American scholar of Sanskrit, the intellectual and literary history of India, and comparative intellectual history. He is the Arvind Raghunathan Professor of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. He was ...

: ''Editing in India: the First 1500 years'' * 2016 : ''Authorship in Transnational Perspective'' * 2017

Peter Kornicki Peter Francis Kornicki (born 1 May 1950) FBA is an English Japanologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Cambridge University and Emeritus Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. Kornicki was born at Maidenhead on 1 May 1950, the eldest s ...

: ''Publish and Perish in Japan: Why manuscripts continued to circulate in the age of print'' * 2019 Kate Nation: ''Learning to Read: linking biology and culture via cognition'' * 2020 Kathryn Sutherland, Dirk van Hulle, Peter McDonald;

Richard Ovenden Richard Ovenden (; born 25 March 1964) is a British librarian and author. He currently serves as Bodley's Librarian in the University of Oxford, having been appointed in 2014. Ovenden also serves as the Director of the Bodleian Library's Centre ...

(Chair): ''McKenzie 25 years on: anniversaries, legacies, reflections'' * 2021

Francesca Orsini Francesca Orsini, FBA is an Italian scholar of South Asian literature. She is currently Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She previously lectured at the ...

: ''The magazine and world literature''

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