Tyne Daile Sumner
Assistant Professor Canada Research Chair in Textual Futures Director, Centre for Digital Humanities Faculty of Arts Department of English Toronto, Ontario tynedaile.sumner@torontomu.ca
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Dr. Tyne Daile Sumner is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in the intersection of literature, digital technologies, and surveillance. She is currently a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, Assistant Professor of English, and Director of The Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan ...
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Dr. Tyne Daile Sumner is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in the intersection of literature, digital technologies, and surveillance. She is currently a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, Assistant Professor of English, and Director of The Centre for Digital Humanities at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Dr. Sumner’s Canada Research Chair in Textual Futures explores how generative artificial intelligence impacts the creation, interpretation, distribution, and cultural significance of texts. Working across literary studies, digital humanities, computer science, and critical AI studies, her research program analyzes how AI-driven Large Language Models are reshaping concepts such as authorship, subjectivity, readership, textual authority, and creative production.
With a background spanning academia, consulting, digital tools training, and project management, Dr. Sumner has published widely across a range of disciplines. She is the author of Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (Routledge 2021), the first detailed study of the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state surveillance apparatus from the 1920s to the 1960s. She is co-author of Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections (Routledge 2026) and co-editor of Small Data Is Beautiful (Grattan Stress Press 2023), an original interdisciplinary collection that investigates the conceptual, artistic, and computational qualities of small data in the age of AI. Together with Philip Morrissey, Dr. Sumner is also Associate Editor of Lionel Fogarty Selected Poems 1980-2017 (re.press 2020), which brings together over forty years of work by the well-known Indigenous Australian poet and political activist Lionel Fogarty. Her other research has been published in leading scholarly journals including Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), Journal of World Literature, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Gender & History, Journal of Intercultural Studies, C21 Literature, and elsewhere.
Prior to arriving at TMU, Dr. Sumner was an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow in English and Digital Humanities at the Australian National University and, before that, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne. She has managed several major infrastructure and training projects in the digital humanities and was lead researcher and co-curator for ‘Instruments of Surveillance,’ a public exhibition at the National Communications Museum (Melbourne, Australia) in 2024.
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Dr. Sumner’s Canada Research Chair in Textual Futures explores how generative artificial intelligence impacts the creation, interpretation, distribution, and cultural significance of texts. Working across literary studies, digital humanities, computer science, and critical AI studies, her research program analyzes how AI-driven Large Language Models are reshaping concepts such as authorship, subjectivity, readership, textual authority, and creative production.
With a background spanning academia, consulting, digital tools training, and project management, Dr. Sumner has published widely across a range of disciplines. She is the author of Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (Routledge 2021), the first detailed study of the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state surveillance apparatus from the 1920s to the 1960s. She is co-author of Cultural Data: The Intimate Analytics of Digital Collections (Routledge 2026) and co-editor of Small Data Is Beautiful (Grattan Stress Press 2023), an original interdisciplinary collection that investigates the conceptual, artistic, and computational qualities of small data in the age of AI. Together with Philip Morrissey, Dr. Sumner is also Associate Editor of Lionel Fogarty Selected Poems 1980-2017 (re.press 2020), which brings together over forty years of work by the well-known Indigenous Australian poet and political activist Lionel Fogarty. Her other research has been published in leading scholarly journals including Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), Journal of World Literature, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Gender & History, Journal of Intercultural Studies, C21 Literature, and elsewhere.
Prior to arriving at TMU, Dr. Sumner was an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow in English and Digital Humanities at the Australian National University and, before that, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne. She has managed several major infrastructure and training projects in the digital humanities and was lead researcher and co-curator for ‘Instruments of Surveillance,’ a public exhibition at the National Communications Museum (Melbourne, Australia) in 2024.
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