Martin Paul Eve (born 1986) is a

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academic, writer, and disability rights campaigner. He is the Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at

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and Visiting Professor of

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at Sheffield Hallam University. He is known for his work on contemporary literary metafiction, computational approaches to the study of literature, and

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policy. Together with Dr Caroline Edwards, he is co-founder of the

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(OLH). Eve was the recipient of a 2019 Philip Leverhulme Prize, the 2018

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Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences, a joint recipient of the

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2018 Prize for his chapter in ''The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature'', and in 2017 was a shortlisted finalist for the

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's Most Inspiring Leader in Higher Education award. In 2021 Eve was listed by the

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as one of the 100 most influential people with disabilities in the

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Academic work

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

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, on whose writing his Ph.D. and first book focused. Eve is, though, especially well known for his work on David Mitchell and for uncovering and documenting the multiple textual editions of ''

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''. Eve has also worked extensively on the American author

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, again uncovering substantial differences between the published version of her texts. 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. With reference to the novels of

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and

China Miéville China Tom Miéville ( ; born 6 September 1972) is a British speculative fiction writer and literary critic. He often describes his work as '' weird fiction'' and is allied to the loosely associated movement of writers called '' New Weird''. M ...

, for instance, Eve has termed this phenomenon "taxonomographic metafiction", which denotes "fiction about fiction that deals with the study/construction of genre/taxonomy". 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. Some of Eve's most recent work, published in ''Book History'' journal has explored the

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, demonstrating that

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's board of directors attempted to cancel its development, misunderstanding its conceptual importance. Eve's work also covers the aesthetics and infrastructures of illicit underground digital cultures. His 2021 book, ''Warez'', examines the pirate artefacts of the

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, arguing for the importance of understanding this culture's artforms. He has further written about the pirate e-book archive,

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, and its technical infrastructures for

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. 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

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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. Along with Jonathan Gray, Eve has also edited a volume on the global inequalities of scholarly communications.

Open-access policy

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

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's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills's Select Committee Inquiry into Open Access. Eve is also a member of the

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Open Access Monographs Working Group and a

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Ambassador. 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. All of Eve's books are published open access and are free to download. Eve is a founder and CEO of the

, a platform with an economic model that avoids author- or funder- facing charges and that is based on his previous theoretical writings. Originally funded by the

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, the platform is funded by a consortium of over 200 libraries and publishes 25 journals. In addition, the OLH funds journals from

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and the

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to publish their titles without article processing charges.

Disability rights work

Eve writes prominently on his blog about his health and disability. Eve suffers from

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, secondary immunodeficiency,

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, and has had

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, and a stroke. 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. For his advocacy work, in 2021 the

named Eve as one of the 100 most influential people with disabilities in the UK.

Book Publications

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Awards

*2021:

Disability Power 100 *2020: Fellow of the

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*2019: Philip Leverhulme Prize *2018:

Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences *2018:

2018 Prize *2017:

's Most Inspiring Leader in Higher Education Award (shortlisted)

References

External links

Home Page (Birkbeck)Home Page (personal)''Guardian'' blog 2011–2014
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