The Brownell Lecture on the History of the Book

Joan Shelly Rubin, "Poetry in Place and Practice: American Readers and the Uses of Verse" November 2007

Margaret Ezell, "Performance Texts: Publishing Prophets in the Interregnum" October 2006

Ezra Greenspan, "Walt Whitman and U.S. Print Culture:
The Medium and the Man" November 2005

Susan Howe, "Remember We Are Traveling as Relations" October 2004

Patricia Crain, "Spectral Literacy: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes" October 2003

Nicholas A. Basbanes, "Among the Gently Mad" October 2002

John Bidwell, "Immigrant Papermakers in Colonial America" November 2001

Adrian Johns, "The Birth of Scientific Reading" March 2001

Robert Darnton, "News and the Media in 18th-century Paris" October 1999

Ellen Gruber Garvey, "Poacher's Gleaners and a Cow called Books: Scrapbooks and 19th century Reading" October 1998

Robert Bringhurst, "The Grain of language and the Music of the Page" November 1997

Christopher deHamel, "Reconstructing the Book of Hours of Etienne Chevalier" November 1996

Jonathan Rose, "How a Historian Teaches the History of the Book" October 1995

Terry Belanger, "The Rare Book School: The Book Arts Press and Its Cottage Industries" September 1994

Ed Colker, "The Persistence of Illumination: Writers & Atisits in Collaboraton and Response, 1892-1993" April 1993

The Mitchell Lecture on the Arts of the Book

Richard Minsky, "Material as Metaphor" March 2007

Cheryl Porter, "Seeking the colorful past: collecting alum, mercury, cinnabar, saffron, purple and red insects..." April 2006

Tim Ely, "The Extra-Terrestrial Book" March 2005

Robert McCamant, "Paper Work: Avid Reader, Perfect Bound" April 2004

Susan Skärsgard, "The Hand in Type" April 2003

Cathleen Baker, "Dard Hunter's Legacy" April 2002

David Godine, "The Publisher of Fine Books Today" April 2001

Thomas Ockerse, "The Partnership of Design & Editorial Architecture" March 2000

Thomas Ingmire, "Facing the Inferno in the Modern World" March 1999

Walter Hamady & Mary Lydon, "Book Learning: A book Artist & a literary Scholar in Conversation" April 1998

Johanna Drucker, "Artists' Books: From Historical Precedents to Electronic Possibilities" March 1997

Alastair Johnston, "The Future of 'Fonts'" May 1996

Claire Van Vliet, "Unorthodox books: Why Make Them?" May 1995