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Beverley Sherry (MA Queensland, PhD Bryn Mawr) has followed a career at the University of Queensland, where she was a Senior Lecturer in English, the Australian National University, and the University of Sydney, where she is now an Honorary Associate in the Department of English. Her work crosses the disciplines of literature, the visual arts, and history, as evidenced in her books, Australia’s Historic Stained Glass (1991) and the bicentennial history Hunter’s Hill: Australia’s Oldest Garden Suburb (1989). John Milton remains, however, her principal interest and she serves on the boards of Milton Quarterly and the International Milton Symposium. Her recent publications include fourteen entries in the new Milton Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas N. Corns (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2012); “Milton, Materialism, and the Sound of Paradise Lost,” Essays in Criticism 60 (2010): 220-41; “John Martin’s Apocalyptic Illustrations to Paradise Lost” in Milton and the Ends of Time, ed. Juliet Cummins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003); and the Introduction to John K. Hale’s Milton as Multilingual (University of Otago, 2005).