Dr Tyne Daile Sumner

She has expertise in twentieth and twenty-first century literature, surveillance, poetry and poetics, and digital culture. Dr Sumner is based in the English Department & Digital Research Hub, in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, and has affiliations with the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures (CALC).

Her primary research examines representations of surveillance in cultural formations including literature, contemporary art, film and popular media. Dr Sumner’s current project is SurveiLit — exploring the depiction of new and emerging forms of surveillance in the contemporary global novel.

Dr Sumner is President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) and has over 15 years experience in digital methods and tools in the arts and humanities. She often speaks on public, interdisciplinary panels about topics that cut across the humanities and technological fields, including big data, artificial intelligence, and digital ethics. She also has a tangential research interest in the life, music, and art of David Bowie.