Tyne Daile Sumner

Dr Tyne Daile Sumner is an ARC DECRA Fellow in English & Digital Humanities at the Australian National University (ANU), affiliated with the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Melbourne (2018), an MA from the University of Melbourne (2013), and a BA from the University of Western Australia (2008). Her research focuses on modern literature, digital humanities, surveillance studies, and poetry. She is President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) and Co-Director of the Centre for Australian Literary Cultures (CALC) at ANU.

Her current projects include SurveiLit: Surveillance & Literature, exploring digital surveillance in global fiction, and Water as Method, analyzing water’s role in settler-colonial politics and global literature. She has collaborated with institutions like the National Communications Museum on exhibitions like Instruments of Surveillance.

• Key Achievements:
• ARC DECRA Fellowship (2024-2026)
• Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence (PhD)
• Co-editor of Small Data is Beautiful (2023)
• Author of Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (2021)

Her interdisciplinary work bridges literary studies, digital ethics, and AI, addressing topics like datafication, digital surveillance, and transdisciplinary humanities impact.