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Amsterdam School of Historical Studies ASH

T. (Tessa) Karsten

Faculty of Humanities
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  • Kloveniersburgwal 48
  • Room number: C1.03
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  • Postbus 1610
    1000 BP Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    Tessa Karsten is a PhD candidate within the project In Our Own Words: Language, Life Story-Telling, and Empowerment in the United States. Under the supervision of Dr. Eva Daussà, Dr. Katy Hull, and Prof. Dr. Barnita Bagchi, she is researching lesbian literary activism within the Feminist Bookstore Network in the United States during the last quarter of the 20th century. She is a member of the America in the World Research Group at ASH and is on the PhD Council of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG). In 2025-2026, she was the Co-Editor-in-Chief of FRAME, Journal of Literary Studies.

    She holds a double MA in North American Studies and Literary Studies from Leiden University. As an MA student, she researched the relationship between the women’s health movement and lesbian AIDS activism in New York City and the self-representation and identity in the journals of Anne Lister (1791-1840).

  • Publications

    2026

    • Karsten, T. (2026). Feminist Bookstore News and the U.S. Reception of Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall. Abstract from OSL PhD Day 2026, Utrecht, Netherlands.
    • Karsten, T. (2026). Lesbian Feminist Imaginaries: Feminist Bookstore News and the US Reception of Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall. Abstract from Amerikanistendag, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
    • Karsten, T. (2026). Making and Selling Jewelry as Craftivist Resistance in U.S. Feminist Bookstores, 1976-1996. Abstract from NASA 2026 Annual Conference American Protest Cultures, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
    • Karsten, T. (2026). “It’s Time We Got This Organized”: Feminist Bookstore News and Lesbian Literary Activism. Abstract from BRN Bookselling Conference 2026, Bangor, United Kingdom.

    Talk / presentation

    • Karsten, T. (speaker) (31-3-2026). Bookwomen en brievencampagnes: Het literaire feministische netwerk rond The Well of Loneliness (1928), IHLIA.

    Others

    • Karsten, T. (participant) (13-11-2025). Between Refuge and Refusal, Utrecht. Roundtable with Noah Littel and Inge Frank van Vught about the meaning of women's publishers and queer archives. (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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