Dr Tyne Sumner

Tyne is an ARC DECRA Fellow in English & Digital Humanities at The Australian National University (ANU), working on a project titled Beyond Big Brother: New Narratives for Understanding Surveillance. Her research is at the intersection of surveillance studies, digital culture and the humanities, with an emphasis on how literary texts help us understand human subjectivity under conditions of datafication. She also has expertise in poetry and poetics, digital humanities, cultural data, facial recognition technology, and digital research infrastructures. Tyne’s recent books include Small Data is Beautiful (co-edited, Grattan Street Press 2023) and Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (Routledge 2021). She has published widely on topics ranging from contemporary fiction, art and film to cultural databases and virtual learning environments. Her current book project is a study of emergent forms of ‘surveillant subjectivity’ in global contemporary fiction. She is also President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH).