Pedersen demonstrates how Whiteness shapes the trope of the beautiful dead girl/woman and how it has been used to privilege white victims.
Anne Bettina Pedersen
Anne Bettina Pedersen is currently finishing her PhD dissertation, ‘We Wet Your Wounds with Kisses and Tears: An Examination of Sylvia Likens as a U.S. Cultural Phenomenon’, at Aalborg University (the Department of Culture and Learning) while teaching at University of Southern Denmark (the Department of Culture and Language) and at Aarhus University (the School of Communication and Culture (Gender Studies)). Pedersen has published articles on Femicide in Popular Culture, Queer Death Studies, Family Estrangement, Toxic Motherhood, Arts-Based Research, her own experiences of being an academic with ADHD, and, most recently, a short story based on her examination of the 1965 murder of Sylvia Marie Likens in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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