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.

[6] Eve's academic work focuses on contemporary American and British fiction, textual scholarship, and digital approaches to the study of literature.

[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.

[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.

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.

[26] Eve is a founder and CEO of the Open Library of Humanities, a platform with an economic model that avoids author- or funder- facing charges and that is based on his previous theoretical writings.