Dr. Tyne Daile Sumner is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow at the Australian National University in literary studies, digital humanities, and surveillance studies. Her research explores topics including facial recognition technology, contemporary literature, digital poetics, and interdisciplinary approaches to AI. She has formerly taught digital tools and methods to a wide range of researchers and has led national digital research infrastructure projects and teams. Her first monograph is Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (Routledge, 2021) and she is co-editor of Small Data is Beautiful (Grattan Street Press, 2023). Beyond academia, Dr. Sumner recently collaborated with the National Communications Museum (Victoria, Australia) on a public exhibition titled Instruments of Surveillance. She frequently presents talks at art galleries and delivers transdisciplinary workshops for archivists, librarians, artists, and computer scientists.


