I work at the intersection of literary studies, digital humanities and surveillance studies, with a focus on how literary texts help us understand human subjectivity under conditions of datafication. I have expertise in poetry & poetics, cultural data, facial recognition technologies, digital research infrastructures and—oddly but not accidentally—David Bowie. In my current research, I focus on interdisciplinary approaches to Artificial Intelligence.
From 2024-2026 I’m working on an Australian Research Council DECRA project about the representation of surveillance in 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 C20th American poetry and surveillance, which carves out new ways of understanding cultural discourse, personal identity, and artistic expression in response to state surveillance. I’m also co-editor of Small Data is Beautiful (2023). I am currently working on a monograph about poetry, subjectivity, and AI.
I frequently speak on panels, at public events and at workshops about the interdisciplinary and transformative power of the humanities. I’ve delivered keynotes and talks to a wide range of audiences on everything from the ‘social media’ novel to what literature can tell us about memory.
Beyond—and sometimes combined with—my academic work, I enjoy glam rock, contemporary theatre, cavernous art galleries, astronomy, karaoke, and turning my hobbies into a convenient talking point.
I post a combination of research, bibliomania & trivial nonsense at @tynedaile.bsky.social
You can also find me on LinkedIn.
I acknowledge that I live & work on unceded Aboriginal land and pay my respect to all Indigenous elders.