Dr. Boehm is currently working on a book manuscript about Spanish horror film that interrogates the sinister relationships between state terrorism, cultural trauma and impunity as they manifest in allegories of loss haunted by gender, sexuality and childhood innocence. Dr. Boehm is also currently working on two articles related to recent sociopolitical changes in Spain since the emergence of the leftist political party Podemos in the 2014 European elections. The first considers the Latin American political roots of Podemos and the party’s difficulties negotiating its ties to Venezuela and Bolivia in the Spanish media, while the second examines the relationship between the resurgence of popular theater in Madrid during the recent economic crisis and Podemos.
Recent Publications: “Specters of Genocide: Mass Graves, Horror Film and Impunity in Post-Dictatorship Spain” in The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History and Memory, Michael O’Loughlin (Ed.), Roman & Littlefield, 2014.