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Mél Hogan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University and host of The Data Fix podcast. She serves as MA/PhD supervisor within her department, though currently not accepting new students while remaining available for supervisory committees and exams via Zoom.
Her research critically examines the environmental impacts of data infrastructures through environmental humanities, critical data studies, and science and technology studies (STS). She employs qualitative, research-creation, and ethnographic methods to investigate data centers, archival theory, and elemental media, with particular focus on how digital technologies intersect with climate crisis and ecological systems. Her work bridges media studies with environmental concerns, emphasizing cultural, social, and historical dimensions of technology.
Recent publications (2022-2025) reveal consistent thematic evolution toward data center ecologies, climate-tech intersections, and materialities of digital storage. Key trends include solastalgia (environmental distress) in cloud computing, archival responses to extinction, and critical examinations of AI's environmental costs. Her scholarship demonstrates increasing interdisciplinary reach across media archaeology, environmental humanities, and critical infrastructure studies.
Dr. Hogan actively supervises graduate students with interdisciplinary projects using qualitative methods in communication/media studies, environmental humanities, and critical theory. She explicitly notes unsuitability for technical problem-solving projects or quantitative social science approaches, emphasizing her preference for critical-humanistic perspectives on data, media, and technology. Her advising philosophy centers on collaborative exploration of environmental impacts within data infrastructures.
