Charley Boerman (she/her) is Lecturer in Comparative Literature. She works at the intersection of cultural memory and heritage studies, with a particular interest in the cultural memory of famine as atrocity in visual culture.

Charley obtained her PhD from Radboud University (cum laude). This study – part of the NWA-funded project ‘Heritages of Hunger’ – examines the visual and material memory cultures of the nineteenth-century Finnish famine, the Ukrainian famine known as the Holodomor, and the Greek famine that occurred during the occupation by the Axis powers in WWII. For her dissertation, Charley was awarded both the KHMW Keetje Hodshon Dissertation Prize and a Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Dissertation Prize. Charley holds a BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences from University College Maastricht, having completed parts of her training at the University of California San Diego, and an rMA in Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. 

Charley coordinated the virtual exhibition Heritages of hunger: The main course in famine. You can find some of her writing here: ‘Remediating Holodomor photography: Frames of violence in the afterlives of famine' (with Clara Vlessing, 2026); ‘Famine Landscapes: Finland’s Skeleton Track in memorial and museums’ (2024); ‘Performing Violence Trauma and Reenactment in Documentary Film' (with Boris Noordenbos, 2022). She is currently working on a monograph based on her dissertation, tentatively titled Framing Famines: Memory, Museums, and Visual Culture.