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Martin Paul Eve is the Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London and the Associate Director for Platform Development at Knowledge Commons at MESH Research at Michigan State University. Martin was also Visiting Professor of Digital Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University from 2019 until 2022. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, 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.. From 2023-2024, Martin was a Principal R&D Developer at Crossref. Martin was an external examiner/validator for MPhil degrees at the University of Cambridge from 2022-2025.

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, visual media, and literary knowledges. This work is spread between criticism of contemporary American and British fiction, histories and philosophies of technology, evaluative cultures in the academy, television studies, science fiction approaches, and technological mutations in scholarly publishing. He is the author or editor of ten scholarly books.

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-). Martin is a Plan S Ambassador and he co-founded the Open Library of Humanities. Martin ran Work Package 3 of the COPIM project, funded by Research England and the Arcadia Foundation. As a result of this policy work, Martin was named as one of the Guardian’s five finalists for higher education’s most inspiring leader 2017.

In 2018, Martin was awarded the KU Leuven Medal of Honour in the Humanities and Social Sciences and alongside co-contributors and the editor won the Electronic Literature Organization’s N. Katherine Hayles Award for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature.

In 2019, Martin was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for Literary Studies by the Leverhulme Trust. In 2020, Martin was elected a Fellow of the English Association. In 2021, Martin was named by the Shaw Trust as one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK. In 2022, Martin was awarded the Canadian Social Knowledge Institute’s Open Scholarship Award and in 2024 was given the Association of University Presses’s StandUP Award. In 2025, Martin won the SHARP Book History Prize for Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History.

Martin is also the developer of several digital humanities/computational projects, perhaps most notably the now-defunct automatic JATS typesetter, meTypeset.

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Research Supervision

Martin would welcome Ph.D. proposals from candidates working in any of the following areas:

  • Twentieth and twenty-first -century contemporary American fiction
  • Contemporary British fiction
  • Computational approaches to the study of literature (digital humanities)
  • Scholarly communications
Martin currently supervises the following Ph.D. candidates:

Current Students

  • Manal Altammami on digital approaches to Mark Twain
  • Marsha Courneya on new equitable techno-economic models for creative industries

Former Students

Research Publications

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Books (15)

Edited Volumes (3)

Peer-Reviewed Articles (47)

Book Chapters (38)

Reviews (23)

Conference Papers/Events (295)