surveilit
Surveillance & Literature
How do writers capture the experience of surveillance today? And how does literature help us understand intensifying forms of digital and algorithmic surveillance? 75 years on from the publication of George Orwell’s well-known dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, surveillance literature is grappling with a vastly different technological milieu. Some things remain, but others will never be the same again.
SurveiLit is a project that responds to this new reality. It is led by Dr Tyne Daile Sumner at The Australian National University & is funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC).
novels
SurveiLit focuses on the representation of surveillance in contemporary global fiction. Combining literary analysis, computational methods, and critical infrastructure studies, the project aims to develop a new interdisciplinary methodology for the study of surveillance in the current era.
research
View my recent and forthcoming publications as well as other research by scholars working at the intersection of surveillance and literary studies.
talks
I frequently speak about my research at conferences, on public panels, and in workshops. I’m also interested in non-academic avenues for discussing the cultural representation and social impact of surveillance.
media
Check in here for recent media and public engagement activities arising from the project. Please get in touch if you’re interested in me speaking about the project on a panel or at an event!
