Dr Martin Eve

Biography

I am an Associate Tutor in the department of English, specialising in post-War metafiction and especially the works of Thomas Pynchon. In addition to a background in experimental theatre and literature, I am also interested in meta-issues surrounding scholarly publishing, open access and the sociology of the university.

As a complement to my research, I am the founding editor of the peer-reviewed, Gold Open Access e-journal, Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon and was chief editor of the postgraduate journal, Excursions until 2011.

I have taught and lectured on a range of courses from first-year synoptic introductions through to third-year seminars up to faculty skills workshops.

Role

Associate Tutor

Qualifications

Academic Degrees

2009 – 2012: Ph.D. in English Literature (AHRC-sponsored); University of Sussex
2008 – 2009: MA Writing in the Modern Age (with Distinction); Queen Mary, University of London
2005 – 2008: BA English and Drama (Joint Hons First Class); Queen Mary, University of London

Professional Qualifications

2011: Associate of the Higher Education Academy
2007: Microsoft Certified Professional: C# and the .NET Framework

I am currently working on two book projects. The first, dervied from my doctoral thesis, investigates the ethics of Thomas Pynchon through the philosophical approaches of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. The second re-evaluates contemporary metafictive practice on a worldwide basis.

Other areas in which I am interested include contemporary fiction (Roberto Bolaño, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, David Grossman, Tom McCarthy, Toni Morrison, W.G. Sebald, David Foster Wallace), Modernism (Samuel Beckett, Robert Musil), innovative and productive engagements with philosophy and Theory, the theatre of Joe Orton, the films of Elia Suleiman, alternative theatre practice and the emergent digital humanities field.

Arts B231

Mondays 11am-1pm

Eve, Martin (2013) The botnet: webs of hegemony/zombies who publish. In: Zombies in the academy: living death in higher education. Intellect, Bristol. ISBN 9781841507149 (In Press)

Eve, Martin (2012) Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the problems of "metamodernism": post-millennial post-postmodernism? C21 Literature, 1 (1). pp. 7-25. ISSN 2045-5216

Eve, Martin Paul (2012) 'Whose line is it anyway?: enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon'. Textual Practice, 26 (5). ISSN 0950-236X

Eve, Martin (2012) Whose line is it anyway?: Enlightenment, revolution and Ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon. Textual Practice, 26 (5). pp. 921-939. ISSN 0950-236X

Eve, Martin (2012) Pynchon and Wittgenstein: ethics, relativism and philosophical methodology. In: Profils Américains: Thomas Pynchon. Profils américains . Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée. (Submitted)

Eve, Martin (2011) Historical Sources for Pynchon's Peter Pinguid Society. Pynchon Notes (56-57). pp. 242-245. ISSN 0278-1891

Eve, Martin Paul (2011) [Review] Joe Moran (2010) Interdisciplinarity, 2nd Edition. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 3 (1). pp. 218-221. ISSN 0975-2935

Eve, Martin Paul (2011) [Review] Joe Moran: Interdisciplinarity (2nd edition). Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 3 (1). pp. 218-221. ISSN 0975-2935

Eve, Martin (2010) [Review] Alan Liu: Local transcendence: essays on postmodern historicism and the database. Textual Practice, 24 (6). pp. 1117-1119. ISSN 0950-236X

Eve, Martin (2010) The time that remains: Elia Suleiman and the London Palestinian film festival 2010. Excursions, 1 (1). pp. 146-151. ISSN 2044-4095