Caroline Joan S. Picart is a Filipino-born American philosopher, who has written and edited numerous books and anthologies on philosophy film, law, criminology, sociology, communications, and cultural studies, especially horror film. She is also a lawyer and had a radio show, The Dr. Caroline (Kay) Picart Show. In 2011, she received the Lord Ruthven Award, non-fiction category, for the book Dracula in Visual Media Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010, co-authored with John Edgar Browning. Currently, she is an appeals attorney at the Florida 10th Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office.

Early life and education

Picart was born in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. Her father, Robert, has a Filipino-French-American ancestry, and her mother, Anarose, a Filipino-Chinese-Spanish background. She was active during the 1986 People's Power Revolution that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos. Picart has drawn from this experience in several of her published works. Picart graduated with a B.S. in Biology (magna cum laude) in 1987, and an M.A. in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1989, while teaching as a university lecturer in Zoology, Philosophy and Astro-Physics at both the Ateneo de Manila University and the San Carlos Pastoral Formation Complex. She was the first Filipina recipient of the Sir Run Run Shaw Scholarship at Christ's College, Cambridge, and graduated with an M.Phil from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science as the Wolfson Prize Winner in 1991. After teaching at Yonsei University's Foreign Language Institute from 1992 to 1993, in 1996 she completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy, with doctoral minors in Aesthetics, Criticism and Theory from Pennsylvania State University, before she completed a post-doctoral summer seminar with Cornell University's School of Criticism and Theory in 1999.

Professional life

In the U.S., Picart was an adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University-Davie from 1996 to 1997, and accepted a Senior Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1997, and was assistant professor in philosophy at Wisconsin Eau-Claire from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2000, she was assistant professor at St. Lawrence University. From 2000 to 2008, she was at Florida State University, where she was tenured in 2004 and was a Courtesy Professor of Law, teaching interdisciplinary law courses. In 2009 she began studying law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She graduated from the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2013, with a joint J.D.-M.A. (cum laude) (Law and Women’s Studies) with Certificates in International Law and Intellectual Property Law, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Florida Journal of International Law, and passed the Florida Bar in 2013. From 2017-2019 and 2021, she was an adjunct law professor at FAMU. Picart has written, co-authored or co-edited 21 published books on philosophy and literature, film, cultural studies, criminology, sociology, communications, law and its interdisciplinary connections, as well as numerous scholarly and popular journal articles. Picart's radio show, The Dr. Caroline (Kay) Picart Show, in nine months of airing, was picked up, in excerpted form, by 59 radio stations, and had an estimated listenership of over two million. She founded the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Law, Culture and the Humanities in 2015.

Works

Books

Selected publications