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'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]
——— (2019). Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN978-1503609365.
———; Gray, Jonathan, eds. (2020). Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN978-0262363723.
———; 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. ISBN978-1108742702.
——— (2021). Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy. Earth, Milky Way: punctum books. ISBN978-1685710361.
——— (2022). The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0198850489.
^Eve, Martin Paul (2019). Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. Stanford: Stanford University. ISBN978-1503609365.
^Da, Nan Z. (2019). "The Computational Case against Computational Literary Studies". Critical Inquiry. 45 (3): 601–639. doi:10.1086/702594. S2CID166906755.
