Caroline Joan S. Picart
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Caroline Joan Picart is an author, artist, DanceSport athlete, and radio host and producer. She currently attends the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
; her father, Robert, has a Filipino-French-American ancestry, and her mother, Anarose, a Filipino-Chinese-Spanish background. She was one among many active student leaders during the 1986 peaceful People's Power Revolution that overthrew Ferdinand
and Imelda Marcos
. Picart has three siblings: Richard, Blanche, and Yvette. She was married to Davis William Houck from 1994 to 2006; in 2009, she married Gerardo M. Rivera. In 2006, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
, and graduated at the top of her class 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 Criticism and Theory, from Pennsylvania State University
, the top-ranked program in Continental Philosophy in the U.S. In 1999, she completed a post-doctoral summer seminar with Cornell University
's School of Criticism and Theory.
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.
As an artist, her work has been sold, exhibited, and featured at various galleries and events in the Philippines, South Korea, and various parts of the U.S. Several of her pieces are owned by UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/. 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, after being consistently ranked among the top three nationally, 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. http://www.unitedstatesdancechampionships.com/index.cfm/showsection/breaking_news/fuseaction/view/news_id/887/page.htm
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, and had an estimated listenership of over two million. http://www.drpicart.com
, The Long Term View http://www.mslaw.edu/about_LTV.htm, Women and Performance http://www.womenandperformance.org/, Scope http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rccc, Rhetoric & Public Affairs http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rap/, Film and History http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/, p.o.v., A Danish Journal of Film Studies http://pov.imv.au.dk/, Jump Cut http://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html, Pacific Coast Philology http://www.pamla.org/pcp, Critical Studies in Media Communication http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/07393180.asp, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
, Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/10746, Philosophy Today http://journalseek.net/cgi-bin/journalseek/journalsearch.cgi?field=issn&query=0031-8256, Social Studies of Science http://sss.sagepub.com/, Journal of Nietzsche Studies http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/philosophy/jns/, Journal of Speculative Philosophy http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jsp/ and ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies http://www.acme-journal.org/volume1.htm
, The Korea Herald, Center Daily Times http://www.centredaily.com/, Voices of Central Pennsylvania http://www.voicesweb.org/, Boca Raton News
, Filipinas Magazine
, Asia Trend Magazine http://www.asiatrendmagazine.com/, and the Tallahassee Democrat
.
Personal life
Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart was born and grew up in the PhilippinesPhilippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
; her father, Robert, has a Filipino-French-American ancestry, and her mother, Anarose, a Filipino-Chinese-Spanish background. She was one among many active student leaders during the 1986 peaceful People's Power Revolution that overthrew Ferdinand
Ferdinand Marcos
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino leader and an authoritarian President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate...
and Imelda Marcos
Imelda Marcos
Imelda R. Marcos is a Filipino politician and widow of 10th Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. Upon the ascension of her husband to political power, she held various positions to the government until 1986...
. Picart has three siblings: Richard, Blanche, and Yvette. She was married to Davis William Houck from 1994 to 2006; in 2009, she married Gerardo M. Rivera. In 2006, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Professional life
Picart graduated with a B.S. Biology at the top of her batch (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. She was the first Filipina recipient of the Sir Run Run Shaw Scholarship at Christ's College, CambridgeChrist's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.With a reputation for high academic standards, Christ's College averaged top place in the Tompkins Table from 1980-2000 . In 2011, Christ's was placed sixth.-College history:...
, and graduated at the top of her class 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
Yonsei University
Yonsei University is a Christian private research university, located in Seoul, South Korea. Established in 1885, it is one of the oldest universities in South Korea, the top private comprehensive universities in South Korea, and is widely regarded as one of the top three comprehensive...
's Foreign Language Institute from 1992 to 1993, in 1996 she completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy, with doctoral minors in Criticism and Theory, from Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
, the top-ranked program in Continental Philosophy in the U.S. In 1999, she completed a post-doctoral summer seminar with Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
's School of Criticism and Theory.
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
St. Lawrence University
St. Lawrence University is a four-year liberal arts college located in the village of Canton in Saint Lawrence County, New York, United States. It has roughly 2300 undergraduate and 100 graduate students, about equally split between male and female....
. From 2000 to 2008, she was at Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
, where she was tenured and promoted in 2004.
As an artist, her work has been sold, exhibited, and featured at various galleries and events in the Philippines, South Korea, and various parts of the U.S. Several of her pieces are owned by UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/. She was the first Filipino woman painter to have an exhibit in Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South Korea in September, 1992, and founded a group, the International Artists and Poets Society when she was in Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
from 1992-1993. In 2006, after being consistently ranked among the top three nationally, 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. http://www.unitedstatesdancechampionships.com/index.cfm/showsection/breaking_news/fuseaction/view/news_id/887/page.htm
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, and had an estimated listenership of over two million. http://www.drpicart.com
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.http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=VIBS+85
- 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 PhilosophySociety for Phenomenology and Existential PhilosophySociety for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy is a philosophical society whose purpose is to promote the study of phenomenology and existentialism....
(2001 and 2002).http://www.psupress.psu.edu/books/titles/0-271-01888-7.html
- (with Frank Smoot and Jayne Blodgett) A Frankenstein Film Sourcebook Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.http://www.praeger.com/catalog/GR1350.aspx
- 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).http://www.praeger.com/catalog/C7363.aspx
- 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.http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60770
- The Holocaust Film Sourcebook (Fiction, Documentary, Propaganda) 2 Volumes. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.http://www.praeger.com/catalog/C7850.aspx
- Picart, Caroline J. S. Inside Notes from the Outside. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739107631
- (with David Frank; introductions by Dominick LaCapraDominick LaCapraDominick LaCapra is an American-born European historian and the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies at Cornell University.-Career:LaCapra received his B.A. from Cornell and his Ph.D. from Harvard...
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.http://www.siupress.com/product/Frames-of-Evil,13.aspx
- 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.http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61202
- (with Cecil Greek) Monsters in and Among Us: Towards a Gothic Criminology. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, October, 2007.http://inside.fdu.edu/fdupress/07102101.html
- (with John Browning) Draculas, Vampires and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race and Culture. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, May, 2009.http://www.scarecrowpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=081086696X
- (with John Browning) The Dracula Film, Comic Book and Game Sourcebook. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, contracted and forthcoming.
Book chapters / journal articles
Picart has published many scholarly book chapters and journal articles; amongst the journals for which she has published are: Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/, Qualitative InquiryQualitative Inquiry
Qualitative Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Social Sciences. The journal's editors are Yvonna Lincoln and Norman K Denzin...
, The Long Term View http://www.mslaw.edu/about_LTV.htm, Women and Performance http://www.womenandperformance.org/, Scope http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rccc, Rhetoric & Public Affairs http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/rap/, Film and History http://www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory/, p.o.v., A Danish Journal of Film Studies http://pov.imv.au.dk/, Jump Cut http://www.ejumpcut.org/home.html, Pacific Coast Philology http://www.pamla.org/pcp, Critical Studies in Media Communication http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/07393180.asp, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of aesthetics and art criticism. It is published on behalf of the American Society for Aesthetics....
, Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/10746, Philosophy Today http://journalseek.net/cgi-bin/journalseek/journalsearch.cgi?field=issn&query=0031-8256, Social Studies of Science http://sss.sagepub.com/, Journal of Nietzsche Studies http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/philosophy/jns/, Journal of Speculative Philosophy http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jsp/ and ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies http://www.acme-journal.org/volume1.htm
Newspaper / magazine articles
Picart has also published popular articles with The Korea TimesThe Korea Times
The Korea Times is the oldest of three English-language newspapers published daily in South Korea, along with The Korea Herald and The JoongAng Daily. It is part of the same newspaper group as Hankook Ilbo, a major Korean language daily...
, The Korea Herald, Center Daily Times http://www.centredaily.com/, Voices of Central Pennsylvania http://www.voicesweb.org/, Boca Raton News
Boca Raton News
The Boca Raton News, owned by the South Florida Media Company, was the local community newspaper of Boca Raton, Florida. The paper began publication December 2, 1955, with a startup circulation of 1200, published by Robert and Lora Britt, and edited by Margert Olsson...
, Filipinas Magazine
Filipinas Magazine
Filipinas was a monthly magazine that catered to the Filipino American community. The magazine's inception was in 1992 and it became a nationally-distributed magazine that served Filipinos in the United States. It covered many aspects of the Filipino diaspora, particularly on Philippine heroes,...
, Asia Trend Magazine http://www.asiatrendmagazine.com/, and the Tallahassee Democrat
Tallahassee Democrat
The Tallahassee Democrat is a daily broadsheet newspaper. It covers the area centered around Tallahassee in Leon County, Florida, as well as adjacent Gadsden County, Jefferson County, and Wakulla County...
.
External links
- http://www.carolinekaypicart.com
- http://www.drpicart.com
- http://kinaestheticssportasart.com