Martin Paul Eve | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 26 May 1986 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | University Professor |
| Known for | Co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities, open access policy, taxonomographic metafiction, digital humanities, the warez scene, research into Library Genesis, history of the PDF format |
| Title | Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing |
| Awards | Association of University Presses StandUP Award (2024)
Open Library of Humanities Award (2023) Canadian Social Knowledge Institute's Open Scholarship Award (2022) Shaw Trust List of 100 Most Influential People with Disabilities in the UK (2021) Association of Online Publishers Small Digital Publisher of the Year for The Open Library of Humanities (2020) Philip Leverhulme Prize (2019) Open Publishing Award for The Open Library of Humanities (2019) KU Leuven Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences (2018) BACLS Edited Collection Award (shared) (2018) Guardian Higher Education Most Inspiring Leader (finalist) (2017) N. Katherine Hayles Award (shared) (2018) Westfield Trust Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement (2008) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Queen Mary, University of London; University of Sussex |
| Thesis | Hostility or Tolerance? Philosophy, Polyphony and the Works of Thomas Pynchon (2013) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Boxall, Derek Attridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Library and Information Science |
| Sub-discipline | Contemporary American fiction |
| Institutions | University of Lincoln, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Main interests | Thomas Pynchon; metafiction; digital humanities Open access policy |
| Website | https://eve.gd/ |
Martin Paul Eve (born 1986) is a British academic, writer, computer programmer, and disability rights campaigner. He is the Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck College, University of London, Principal R&D Developer at Crossref, and was Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University until 2022.[1] He is known for his work on contemporary literary metafiction, computational approaches to the study of literature, and open-access policy. Together with Dr Caroline Edwards, he is co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH).
Eve was the recipient of a 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize, the 2018 KU Leuven Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences,[2] a joint recipient of the Electronic Literature Organization's N. Katherine Hayles 2018 Prize for his chapter in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature,[3] and in 2017 was a shortlisted finalist for the Guardian's Most Inspiring Leader in Higher Education award.[4] In 2021 Eve was listed by the Shaw Trust as one of the 100 most influential people with disabilities in the United Kingdom.[5]
Eve suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis and end-stage renal failure due to BK virus nephropathy.[6]
- ^ "Staff Page for Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London". Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ^ "KU Leuven Honorary Medal in the Humanities and Social Sciences". Ku Leuven. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
- ^ "Announcing the Winners of the 2018 ELO Prize". 18 August 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ^ "Higher education's most inspiring leader shortlist 2017". The Guardian. March 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:0was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "On Pain and Subjectivity". Martin Paul Eve. 7 May 2023. Retrieved 16 September 2023.