I’m a researcher, writer, and public speaker at The Australian National University (ANU).

I work at the intersection of surveillance studies, digital culture and the humanities, with an emphasis on how literary texts help us understand human subjectivity under conditions of datafication. I also have expertise in poetry & poetics, digital humanities, cultural data, facial recognition technology, digital research infrastructures and—oddly but not accidentally—David Bowie.

From 2024-2026 I’m working on an Australian Research Council DECRA project about the relationship between surveillance and contemporary global literature, ‘SurveiLit: Surveillance & Literature.’

My first book, Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance (2021) is a study of the relationship between 20th century American poetry and surveillance, which carves out new ways of understanding cultural discourse, personal identity and artistic expression in response to state surveillance. I am currently working on a second book which examines faciality and literary form alongside a cultural history of facial recognition technologies.

I frequently speak on panels, at public events and at workshops about interdisciplinary and transformative approaches to the humanities. I’ve delivered keynotes and talks to a wide range of audiences on everything from big data in libraries to what literature can tell us about memory.

I’m also President of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) and on the international Steering Committee of the Art, AI & Digital Ethics research collective.

I like glam rock, cavernous art galleries, astronomy, karaoke, and turning my hobbies into a convenient talking point whenever I can.

I post a combination of research, bibliomania & trivial nonsense over at: @tynedaile.bsky.social

You can also find me on LinkedIn.