Dr. Tyne Sumner

Biography

Tyne Daile Sumner is an interdisciplinary scholar who works at the intersection of literary studies, digital humanities, and surveillance studies. She earned her PhD in Literary Studies from the University of Melbourne in 2018, where she was awarded the Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence. Following her doctoral work, Sumner was an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, cultural analytics, and linked open data. Her current research at the Australian National University (ANU) involves an ARC DECRA Fellowship project entitled SurveiLit, which examines the relationship between contemporary global fiction and surveillance. Sumner has been a project manager on national infrastructure projects within the arts and humanities and has previously served as a Senior Digital Strategy Advisor at the University of Melbourne. She has authored the monograph 'Lyric Eye: Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance' and co-edited 'Small Data Beautiful'. Sumner actively engages in public scholarship and has collaborated with cultural institutions to develop exhibitions on surveillance. Her research interests span multiple domains, including digital ethics, artificial intelligence, and the societal implications of surveillance technologies.

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