A. D. Cousins is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia. He has published thirteen books in America and England, including monographs on Thomas More, Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, and religious verse of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is on the Editorial Board of Moreana, the international journal of More and Erasmus studies, and of JLLC (formerly AUMLA).