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.
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.
Her father, Robert, has a Filipino-French-American ancestry, and her mother, Anarose, a Filipino-Chinese-Spanish background.
[10] 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.
[11] She founded the Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Law, Culture and the Humanities in 2015.