Prof Martin Paul Eve

Overview

Biography

Martin Paul Eve is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing and the College's Strategic Lead for Digital Education at Birkbeck, University of London. Previously he was a Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK and an Associate Tutor/Lecturer at the University of Sussex, where he completed his Ph.D.

Martin is a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Literatures and Languages, the KU Leuven Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Electronic Literature Organization's N. Katherine Hayles Award. In 2021, Martin was named among the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK by the Shaw Trust.

Martin specialises in contemporary American fiction (primarily the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, and David Foster Wallace), histories and philosophies of technology, and technological mutations in scholarly publishing. He is the author or editor of many books. From 2015-2020, Martin was a member of the UK English Association’s Higher Education committee.

In addition, Martin is well-known for his work on open access and HE policy, appearing before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open Access, writing for the British Academy Policy Series on the topic, being a steering-group member of the OAPEN-UK project, the Jisc National Monograph Strategy Group, the SCONUL Strategy Group on Academic Content and Communications, the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Open Access Steering Group, the Jisc Scholarly Communications Advisory Group, the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation advisory board, the California Digital Library/University of California Press’s Humanities Book Infrastructure advisory board, and the HEFCE Open Access Monographs Expert Reference Panel (2014), the Universities UK OA Monographs Working Group (2016-), and founding the Open Library of Humanities.

Qualifications

• Ph.D., University of Sussex, 2013
• M.A., Queen Mary, University of London, 2009
• B.A., Queen Mary, University of London, 2008

Web profiles

• Personal website

Administrative responsibilities

• College Strategic Lead for Digital Education
• Disability Lead for English, Theatre and Creative Writing
• Member of Open Research Working Group

Visiting posts

• Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University,

Honours and awards

• Disability Power 100, The Shaw Trust, July 2021
• Shortlisted for Innovation Award for COPIM/Opening the Future, Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, July 2021
• Fellow of the English Association, The English Association, July 2020
• Philip Leverhulme Prize, The Leverhulme Trust, July 2019
• Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences, KU Leuven, July 2018
• Open Publishing Award for The Open Library of Humanities, CoKo Foundation, July 2019
• Westfield Trust Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Queen Mary, University of London, July 2008

ORCID

0000-0002-5589-8511

Research

Research interests

• Scholarly Communications
• Contemporary Fiction
• Digital Humanities

Research overview

Broadly speaking, Martin’s work centres on understanding different registers of knowledge and how they manifest in writing. Martin studies how literary reading techniques can be used to provide us with access to a set of differing epistemologies that all take inscriptive forms: historical, scientistic, digito-factual, and literary knowledges. This work is spread between contemporary American and British fiction, histories and philosophies of technology, evaluative cultures in the academy, and technological mutations in scholarly publishing. He is the author or editor of nine scholarly books.

Research projects

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

7

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest. Prospective students should submit an informal inquiry, followed by a proposal of 2,000 - 4,000 words, including an indicative bibliography.

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

• RAPHAEL KABO

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor, Jun 2018

  Title of thesis:

  Imagining the End of Capitalism: Utopia and the Commons in Contemporary Literature

  Awarded:

  2020

• SERENA CENICCOLA

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor, Sep 2019

  Title of thesis:

  "Nanigode kangaeteiruka": A Comparative Study on Multilingualism, Loneliness and Hybridity in the Japanese Contemporary Literature and Literary-Adjacent Media

  Description:

   

   

  Awarded:

  2024

• BRONAC FERRAN

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2016

  Title of thesis:

  Autopoetics: Hansjörg Mayer's Titles of the Nineteen-Sixties

  Awarded:

  2023

• ERIN REILLY

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2015

  Title of thesis:

  Towards an Ethical Culture: American Mythologies and the Limits of Freedom in the work of David Foster Wallace

  Awarded:

  2022

• ERIK KETZAN

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor

  Title of thesis:

  Groundwork: Digital Approaches to Changes in Thomas Pynchon's Style

  Awarded:

  2020

• STUART LAWSON

  Nature of supervision:

  Joint Principal Supervisor

  Title of thesis:

  Open Access Policy in the UK: From Neoliberalism to the Commons

  Awarded:

  2019

Teaching

I teach mostly in the areas of contemporary fiction, twentieth-century American and British fiction, and philosophies and histories of technology.

Publications