Martin Paul Eve
Martin Paul Eve | |
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| Born | 26 May 1986 |
| Occupation | University Professor |
| Known for | Co-founder of the Open Library of Humanities, open access policy, History of books, taxonomographic metafiction, digital humanities, the warez scene, research into Library Genesis, history of the PDF format |
| Title | Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing |
| Awards | SHARP Book History Book Prize (2025)
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 | Birkbeck, University of London, Crossref, Michigan State University, Sheffield Hallam University, University of Lincoln |
| Main interests | Thomas Pynchon; metafiction; digital humanities; History of books; 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 and the Technical Lead for Knowledge Commons at Michigan State University. Previously, Eve was Principal R&D Developer at Crossref from 2023-2024 and Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University until 2022. He is known for his work on contemporary literary metafiction, computational approaches to the study of literature, digital media studies and history of the book, and open-access policy. Together with 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, a joint recipient of the Electronic Literature Organization's N. Katherine Hayles 2018 Prize for his chapter in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, and in 2017 was a shortlisted finalist for The Guardian's Most Inspiring Leader in Higher Education award. In 2021 Eve was listed by the Shaw Trust as one of the 100 most influential people with disabilities in the United Kingdom. In 2025, Eve was awarded the SHARP Book History Book Prize.
Eve has severe rheumatoid arthritis and end-stage renal failure due to BK virus nephropathy.