Having recently returned to work after several weeks off work because of anxiety and clinical depression, it seems appropriate to write about a ‘trending’ topic: mental health, mental illness, its representations in popular media, and how all of these affect staff and students in universities. I am referring here to my own experience working in a UK institution of HE but I’m sure some aspects of the situation apply elsewhere.

Guest Editor:  Alfred L. Martin, Jr. University of Colorado Denver Alfred.Martin@UCDenver.edu DEADLINE:  SEPTEMBER 1, 2017 PROPOSED PUBLICATION DATE:  Fall/Winter 2018 Production studies has often failed to include sexuality and queerness in its research agenda.

QUEER SCREENS CONFERENCE 2017 September 2nd and 3rd 2017 The Institute of the Humanities and the Gendered Subjects Research Group at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK Keynote speaker: Prof.