Caroline Joan S. Picart
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Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart is an author, artist, DanceSport athlete, and radio host and producer. She currently attends the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
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[edit] Personal life
Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart was born and grew up in the Philippines; her father, Robert, has a Filipino-French-American ancestry, and her mother, Anarose, a Filipino-Chinese-Spanish background.
[edit] Professional life
Picart graduated with a B.S. Biology (pre-med, 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.[1] 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 in 1991. After teaching at Yonsei University's Foreign Language Institute from 1992 to 1993, in 1996 she completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University.
Picart has written, co-authored or co-edited 13 books on philosophy and literature, film, cultural studies, law and its interdisciplinary connections, as well as numerous scholarly and popular journal articles. She has also been a newspaper columnist and magazine contributor to newspapers and magazines in Seoul, South Korea, Pennsylvania, Florida and California. She has taught in the Philippines, England, South Korea and various parts of the U.S. in the fields of Biology, Philosophy, Film and the Humanities for 21 years. 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; she was at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1997, where she remained till 1999. From 1999 to 2000, she was an Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence University. From 2000 to 2008, she was at Florida State University, where she was tenured and promoted in 2004.
She was the first Filipino woman painter to have an exhibit in Seoul, South Korea in September, 1992, and founded a group, the International Artists and Poets Society when she was in Seoul from 1992-1993. In 2006 she won the US Open Cabaret pro am championship, which entails a mix of ballroom dance, ballet and gymnastics. She is the first Filipina to win this title.[2]
Picart's radio show, the Dr. Caroline (Kay) Picart Show, in 9 months of airing, was picked up, in excerpted form, by 59 national and international radio stations.[3]
[edit] Works
[edit] Books
- Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, Music and Laughter in Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 1999. Nominated for Second American Philosophical Association Book Prize for Younger Scholars.[4]
- Resentment and The Feminine in Nietzsche’s Politico-Aesthetics. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. Nominated for Second American Philosophical Association Book Prize for Younger Scholars; American Metaphysical Society, John Findlay Prize; Current Research Session, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (2001 and 2002).[5]
- (with Frank Smoot and Jayne Blodgett) A Frankenstein Film Sourcebook Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.[6]
- The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein: Universal, Hammer and Beyond. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001. Nominated for Current Research Session, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and the National Communication Association Diamond Anniversary Award, (2002).[7]
- Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2003. Nominated for the National Communication Association Rhetoric and Communication Emerging Scholar Award.[8]
- The Holocaust Film Sourcebook (Fiction, Documentary, Propaganda) 2 Volumes. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.[9]
- Picart, Caroline J. S. Inside Notes from the Outside. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.[10]
- (with David Frank; introductions by Dominick LaCapra and Edward Ingebretsen) Frames of Evil: The Holocaust as Horror in American Film. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, November 2006. Nominated for the National Communication Association “Best Book” Awards in both the Rhetorical Theory division and the Visual Communication Division.[11]
- From Ballroom Dance to DanceSport: Aesthetics, Athletics and Body Culture. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,January 2006. Nominated for the National Communication Association “Best Book” Awards in both the Rhetorical Theory division and the Visual Communication Division.[12]
- (with Cecil Greek) Monsters in and Among Us: Towards a Gothic Criminology. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, October, 2007.[13]
- (with John Browning) Draculas, Vampires and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race and Culture. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, May, 2009.[14]
- (with John Browning) The Dracula Film, Comic Book and Game Sourcebook. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, contracted and forthcoming.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
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Dr. Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart, 2008
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U.S. Open Cabaret Pro Am Championship, 2006
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Dr. Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart Radio Show, 2008
