Please note that the Frederic W. Goudy Lecture series is free and open to the public. For further information, contact Tia Blassingame, director of the Scripps College Press at (909) 607-3866.
| Lecture | Event Date | |
| Walter Tisdale | The Poets Lead the Way | February 19, 2011 |
| Diane Samuels | Close Looking/Close Reading | October 02, 2010 |
| Johanna Drucker | Iliazd and the Modern Art of the Book | February 06, 2010 |
| Pati Scobey | Lost with the Poets | October 24, 2009 |
The following is a list of past Goudy Lecturers and Workshop leaders:
| Lecture | Event Date | |
| Sam Winston with Ron King | Visual Typography | Spring 2009 |
| Ron King & Sam Winston | Hole, Horse, and Hellbox | Spring 2009 |
| Susan Joy Share | Wearable Books and Movement | Fall 2008 |
| Susan Joy Share | Attachments | Fall 2008 |
| Suzanne Moore & Don Glaister | Proximity and Process: Glaister and Moore Offer Perspectives on the Work of each Other | Spring 2008 |
| Suzanne Moore | ko-läzh | Spring 2008 |
| Harriet Bart | Labyrinth of the Book | Fall 2007 |
| Steven Clay | Too Much Bliss: Twenty Years of Granary Books | Fall 2006 |
| Emily McVarish | Letterpress Writing: Meanings of Production | Fall 2006 |
| Claire Van Vliet | Janus Press: Fifty Years | Spring 2006 |
| Joan Michaels Paque | A Personal Perspective: An Attempt at Innovation and Inventiveness | Fall 2005 |
| Tom Killion | Tom Killion's Woodcut Prints of the California Landscape: Adapting Japanese Techniques to Letterpress Printing | Spring 2005 |
| Margaret Prentice | Imagery for the Book and the Wall, Two Different Points of View | Fall 2004 |
| Dr. Eric White | The Fifteenth-Century Geometry of Gutenberg's 42-Line Bible | Spring 2004 |
| Julie Chen | Production and Process: The Making of Limited Edition Artists' Books | Fall 2003 |
| Gary Frost, Shanna Leino | Future of the Book vs. Book of the Future | Spring 2003 |
| Dr. Betty Bright | Who Put the Art in Book Art? | Fall 2002 |
| Hedi Kyle | The Book in your Hand: It's not all about Reading | Spring 2002 |
| Robin Price | Hijinks at the Press: Chance, Randomness, and Blind Collaboration in Contemporary Artists' Books | Fall 2001 |
| Betsy Eldridge | Book Conservation: the Variety of Problems Encountered in Private Practice | Spring 2001 |
| Steve Miller | With a Piece of Type in Hand...Making the Dard Hunter biography... Thinking about the Future of Books | Fall 2000 |
| Wilbur Schilling | Creating a Career in the Book Arts | Spring 2000 |
| Frank Mowery | Bound and Closed: An Overview of Fine and Historical Bindings with Clasps from the Folger Shakespeare Library | Fall 1999 |
| Nancy Tomasco | Chinese Books: Just what are They? | Spring 1999 |
| Richard Wagener | Fall 1998 | |
| Peter Koch | Buffalo Rome or... Fine Printing in the Real West | Fall 1998 |
| Sumner Stone | Continuity and Innovation in Type Design: The Debut of Scripps College Old Style in Digital Form | Spring 1998 |
| Carolee Campbell, Donna Westerman | Confluence: Rivers and Books | Fall 1997 |
| Gerald Lange | Spring 1997 | |
| Daniel Tucker & Claire Owen | An Accord of Grace: a View of the Ideal Book from Turtle Island Press | Spring 1997 |
| Cal Ling | World Views: Influences in the 1990s | Fall 1996 |
| Johanna Drucker | The Artists' Book: Historical Precedents and Critical Future | Spring 1996 |
| Susan King | Travel Notes of a Prodigal Daughter | Fall 1995 |
| Eleanor Ramset, Paula Gourley | Design Binding: An Approach | Spring 1995 |
| Gabriel Rummonds | The Iron Hand Press: an Apparatus of Torture or an Instrument of Perfection | Fall 1994 |
| Fred Brady, Carol Twombly | Trends of Traditions in Type | Spring 1994 |
| Ruth Copans, John Anzalone, Joanne Sonnichsen | Contemporary French Book Binding and the Reassessment of Book Décor | Fall 1993 |
| Carol Barton | Pop-ups: Past and Present | Spring 1993 |
| Pamela Spitzmueller | Making Connections: What are the Ties Between Book Conservation, Book Materials, and my One-Of-A-Kind Book? | Fall 1992 |
| R. Stanley Nelson, D. J. R. Bruckner, Fred Brady, Theo Rehak | 50th Birthday Party | Spring 1992 |
| Richard Wagener | Paradise Lost by the Golden Cockerell Press | Fall 1991 |
| Dr. Wendy Furman | Seeing with Other Eyes: Wood Engravings of Mary Groom for | Fall 1991 |
| Tony Zwicker | Pix Sticks, Stones and Bones: American Bookworks 1965-1990 | Spring 1991 |
| Timothy Ely | Recent Works: Structures and Symbols | Fall 1990 |
| Claire Van Vliet | Paper and Books, Book and Paper | Spring 1990 |
| Sumner Stone | New Typographic Voices for the Digital Era | Fall 1989 |
| Andrew Hoyem, Arion Press | Arion Press: 15 Years of Finely Printed Books | Spring 1989 |
| Jerry Kelly | The Marriage of Calligraphy and Typography | Fall 1988 |
| Sandra Kirschenbaum | On the Values to be Found in Finely Printed Books | Spring 1988 |
| Hedi Kyle | Contemporary Book Structures | Fall 1985 |
| Christine Bertelson | Impressions: 1980 - 1985 | Spring 1985 |
| Claire Van Vliet | The Circus of Doctor Lao: A Tale of Two Editions | Spring 1985 |
| Charles Seluzicki | Some Thoughts on the Arts of the Broadside | Fall 1984 |
| David Lance Goines | Application of Typographic Traditions to New Technology | Spring 1984 |
| Ward Ritchie | Irrepressible Jane | Spring 1984 |
| Leonard Schlosser | Dard Hunter: Dedicated Pioneer | Fall 1983 |
| Timothy Barrett | Traditional Hand-Papermaking: Eastern and Western | Spring 1983 |
| Barry Moser | On Illustration | Fall 1982 |
| Claire Van Vliet | Some Approaches to Text and Illustration | Spring 1982 |
| April Greiman | New Wave | Spring 1982 |
| Robert Serpa | Hand Papermaking: Directions in the Current Revival | Fall 1981 |
| Johanna Goldschmid | Bookbinding: a Contemporary View | Spring 1981 |
| Walter Hamady | The Perishable Press Unlimited | Spring 1981 |
| David R. Godine | Beauty and Order: the Bookmaker's Challenge from the 16th-21st Centuries | Fall 1980 |
