Martin Paul Eve

Eve's academic work focuses on contemporary American and British fiction, textual scholarship, and digital approaches to the study of literature. Eve's earliest academic work focused on the novels of Thomas Pynchon, on whose writing his Ph.D. and first book focused.[7] Eve is, though, especially well known for his work on David Mitchell and for uncovering and documenting the multiple textual editions of Cloud Atlas.[8][9][10][11] Eve has also worked extensively on the American author Jennifer Egan, again uncovering substantial differences between the published version of her texts.[12][13]

Following the work of Mark McGurl, part of Eve's ongoing project has been to chart the interactions between the academy and recent strains of fiction.[14] With reference to the novels of Sarah Waters and China Miéville, for instance, Eve has termed this phenomenon "taxonomographic metafiction", which denotes "fiction about fiction that deals with the study/construction of genre/taxonomy".[15] Eve's more recent literary studies work has turned to quantitative, computational, and digital-material approaches to the study of contemporary fiction, using approaches that have been praised for their rigour but simultaneously criticized for the amount of work that such methods require.[16] Some of Eve's most recent work, published in Book History journal has explored the PDF format, demonstrating that Adobe's board of directors attempted to cancel its development, misunderstanding its conceptual importance.[17]

Eve's work also covers the aesthetics and infrastructures of illicit underground digital cultures. His 2021 book, Warez, examines the pirate artefacts of the warez scene, arguing for the importance of understanding this culture's artforms.[18] He has further written about the pirate e-book archive, Library Genesis, and its technical infrastructures for Digital Humanities Quarterly.[19]

Finally, Eve is also known for his work studying academic cultures of evaluation. In his 2021 book, Reading Peer Review, Eve and his collaborators studied peer-review reports at the academic journal PLOS One. In this work, Eve et al. demonstrated that PLOS's attempts to shift reviewing cultures had not had the desired effect on the ground.[20] Along with Jonathan Gray, Eve has also edited a volume on the global inequalities of scholarly communications.[21]

Eve is known for and significantly involved in UK and international policy work on open access. In 2013, for instance, he gave oral and written evidence to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills's Select Committee Inquiry into Open Access.[22] Eve is also a member of the Universities UK Open Access Monographs Working Group[23] and a Plan S Ambassador.[24] Eve is also a co-investigator on the £2.2m Research England funded Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM), which aims to effect a transition of the UK's academic book publications to openly accessible modes.[25] All of Eve's books are published open access and are free to download.[26]

Eve is a founder and CEO of the Open Library of Humanities, a platform with an economic model that avoids author- or funder- facing charges and that is based on his previous theoretical writings.[27][28] Originally funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,[29] the platform is funded by a consortium of over 200 libraries and publishes 25 journals.[30][31] In addition, the OLH funds journals from Liverpool University Press and the University of Wales Press to publish their titles without article processing charges.[32][33]

Eve writes prominently on his blog about his health and disability.[34] Eve suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, vasculitis, secondary immunodeficiency, hearing loss, and has had pneumonia, sepsis, and a stroke.[35] In 2017, Eve was part of a group that protested against the inaccessibility of a lecture by Judith Butler, who met with this group to discuss these provisions.[36] For his advocacy work, in 2021 the Shaw Trust named Eve as one of the 100 most influential people with disabilities in the UK.[5]

• Eve, Martin Paul (2014). Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1137405494.
• ——— (2014). Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future. Cambridge: Cambridge University. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316161012. ISBN 9781316161012.
• ——— (2016). Password. Object Lessons. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1501314872.
• ——— (2016). Literature Against Criticism: University English & Contemporary Fiction in Conflict. Cambridge: Open Book. ISBN 978-1783742738.
• ——— (2019). Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-1503609365.
• ———; Gray, Jonathan, eds. (2020). Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0262363723.
• ———; Neylon, Cameron; O’Donnell, Daniel; Moore, Samuel; Gadie, Robert; Odeniyi, Victoria; Parvin, Shahina (2021). Reading Peer Review: PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108742702.
• ——— (2021). Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy. Earth, Milky Way: punctum books. ISBN 978-1685710361.
• ——— (2022). The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198850489.

• 2021: Shaw Trust Disability Power 100[5]
• 2020: Fellow of the English Association[37]
• 2019: Philip Leverhulme Prize[38]
• 2018: KU Leuven Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences[2]
• 2018: Electronic Literature Organization's N. Katherine Hayles 2018 Prize[3]
• 2017: Guardian's Most Inspiring Leader in Higher Education Award (shortlisted)[4]

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