Books

Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections (with Nat Cutter & Rachel Fensham) (forthcoming, Routledge 2025)

Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance. New York: Routledge, 2021

Edited Books

Instruments of Surveillance. Ed Tyne Daile Sumner. Melbourne: National Communication Museum, 2024.

Small Data Is Beautiful. Eds. Rachel Fensham, Tyne Daile Sumner, Signe Ravn, Ashley Barnwell and Danny Butt. Melbourne: Grattan Street Press, 2023

Fogarty, Lionel. Lionel Fogarty Selected Poems 1980-2017. Eds. Philip Morrissey and Tyne Daile Sumner. Melbourne: re.press, 2017

Peer-Reviewed Articles

‘Technologies of Literature: Reading, Judgment, and the Large Language Model’ (with Christian Gelder and Charles Barbour). Special Issue: AI and the Future of Literary Studies. Australian Literary Studies (2025)

‘The Eco-Algorithmic Border’ (with Keyvan Allahyari). Journal of Borderlands Studies (2025): 1-10.

‘Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes.’ Special Issue: Novel Media/Media Novel. C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings 12.2 (2025): 8

‘Interplanetary Subjectivity and Literary form in Olga Ravn’s The Employees and Samantha Harvey’s Orbital.’ Subjectivity (2025)

‘Troubling the Face: Sylvia Plath’s Lyric Masks.’ Colloquium Helveticum: Swiss Review of General and Comparative Literature 53 (2024): 161-175

‘The Way the Portal Wrote: Datafication and Subjectivity in Patricia Lockwood’s No One is Talking About This.’ Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 49.2 (2024): 252-268

‘Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing The Australian Cultural Data Engine.’ Digital Humanities Quarterly 18.2 (2024): 1-58 (with Fensham, Cutter et. al)

‘Pixel, Partition, Persona: Machine Vision and Face Recognition in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun.’ Open Library of Humanities 9.2 (2023): 1-23

‘The Slipperiness of Name: Biography and Gender in Australian Cultural Databases.’ Gender & History (2023): 1-18 (with Nat Cutter & Rachel Fensham)

‘Zoom Face: Self-Surveillance, Performance and Display.’ Journal of Intercultural Studies 43.6 (2022): 865-879

‘Identity is Cruel: Capital, Gimmick and Surveillance in the Australian Post-diasporic Short Story.’ Australian Humanities Review 69 (2021): 1-19 (with Keyvan Allahyari)

‘The Politics of Disgust: Form and Feeling in Christos Tsiolkas’s Merciless Gods.’ Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature 35.1 (2021): 36-52 (with Keyvan Allahyari)

‘Transforming the Subject, Transforming Ourselves: Resisting the Surveillant Turn in Virtual Learning Environments.’ Digital Culture & Education (2020) (with Brian Martin)

‘Anne Sexton, Singer: ‘Her Kind; and the Musical Impetus in Lyric Confessional Verse.’ Australian Literary Studies 29.1 (2015): 90-106

Book Chapters

‘Some Things Can’t be Measured: Rethinking Engagement in the Digital Humanities and its Partners’ (with Tully Barnett). The Compantion to Digital Humanities in Practice Eds. Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard Lane and Ray Siemens. (2025): 354-367

‘Poetic Simulation’ in Decentering Ethics: AI Art as Method.. Eds. Vanessa Bartlett, Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Emilie K. Sunde, Open Humanities Press (2025): 63-83

‘Love on the Words: Lionel Fogarty’s Amatory Verse’ in Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics. Ed. Phillip Morrissey and Dashiell Moore. Palgrave (2025): 97-117

‘More Than A Lab: Infra-Structuring the Humanities in the Digital Studio’ in Digital Humanities Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastrcuture and Culture. Eds. Urszula Pawlicka-Deger and Christopher Thomson (Routledge, 2023): 89-104, (with Rachel Fensham and Natalia Grincheva)

‘Scale Poetics: Crisis, Data and the Literary Imagination.’ In Small Data is Beautiful Eds. Tyne Sumner, Rachel Fensham, Signe Ravn, Ashley Barnwell and Danny Butt. (Grattan Street Press, 2023): 284-300

‘Zoom Face: Self-Surveillance, Performance and Display’ in Performing Identity in the Era of COVID-19. Eds. Lauren O’Mahony, Rahul K. Gairola, Melissa Merchant and Simon Order. New York: Routledge, 2023

‘The Surveillant Power of the [A]Temporal Cameo: Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me’ in I’m Not a Film Star: David Bowie as Actor. Eds Ian Dickson and Brendan Black (Bloomsbury, 2022): 199-218

‘Wild Spiders Crying Together: Confessional Poetry, Censorship and the Cold War’ in Censorship and the Limits of the Literary: A Global View. Ed. Nicole Moore (Bloomsbury, 2017): 161-175

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

‘What’s in a Name?: A Cross-Section of Biography, Gender & Metadata in the Design & Art Australia Online Database.’ (first author) International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (2023): 1-7

‘False Face Must Hide What the False Heart Doth Know: The Literary Face in the Age of AI.’ Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY (2021): 253–255

Media & Public Interest Articles

‘Earth to Algorithm: The Materiality of Algorithmic Surveillance.’ The National Communication Museum (2025)

‘Big Brother is (still) Watching: Why the lessons of 1984 are more important than ever.’ The ANU Reporter (2024)

‘Gendered labour in the Australian arts.’ Pursuit (2023)

'The hidden stories in Australia’s cultural data.’ Pursuit (2022)

‘In an age of pervasive surveillance, reading poetry matters more than ever.’ The Mandarin (2021)

‘Poetry as a surveillance survival guide.’ Pursuit (2021)

‘How Literature helps us interpret the human face.’ Pursuit (2021)

‘Always in Focus: Facial-recognition technology, optics and resistance in political unrest.’ CAIDE (2021)

‘Poetry, Privacy and Paranoia: (Wire)tapping into the American Dream.’ Crossed Lines (online exhibition) (2020).

Short Essays

‘Portrait, Lyric, Code: Reading the Face Before and After Laura Riding Jackson’s Body’s Head.’ Cordite Poetry Review, 2022

‘Mosaically Speaking: Pieces of Lionel Fogarty’s Poetics.’ Cordite Poetry Review, 2019

Digital Pedagogy

The Digital Research Skills Cookbook. Eds. Christina Tuke Flanders, Tyne Daile Sumner and Dejan Jotanovic, 2017

‘Be-ing, Doing and Knowing: A Speculative Care Through Constellations Model for ePortfolio’ In Doing it Right: ePortfolios and Ethics, Practices, and Technologies 4.2 (2021):67-70 (with Kate Coleman and Brian Martin)

‘Omeka: Make Your Own Museum.’ Digital English. Ed. Milthorpe, N., 2018

Forthcoming

‘Adorable World: The Face of Modernism in Virginia Woolf’s ‘An Unwritten Novel’ (with Stephanie Trigg and Joe Hughes). Review of English Studies (2026)

‘The Performer’s Eyes and the Protagonist’s Gaze: Music Video as Optical Playground.’ The Cambridge Companion to David Bowie. Ed. Denis Flannery. Cambridge UP (2026).

‘A Game with the Devil: Voyeuristic Surveillance and Cruel Optimism in Christian Boltanski’s The Life of C.B. (2010).’ Surveillance/Art: A Creative Address of Surveillance Logics. Eds. Susan Cahill, with Julia Chan, Stéfy McKnight, and sava saheli. (2026)

‘Looking for a Listener: Twentieth-Century Lyric Telephony and Surveillance.’ Telepoetics. Ed. Sarah Jackson. Edinburgh University Press (2026).