is a philosopher
and former molecular embryologist educated in the Philippines, England, and
the U.S. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Humanities and English at
Florida State University. She is the author of Resentment and “the
Feminine” in Nietzsche’s Politico-Aesthetics (Penn State University
Press, 1999); Thomas Mann and Friedrich Nietzsche: Eroticism, Death, Music
and Laughter (Rodopi, 1999); The Cinematic Rebirths of Frankenstein:
Universal, Hammer and Beyond (Praeger, 2001), co-authored with Frank Smoot
and Jayne Blodgett, The Frankenstein Film Sourcebook (Greenwood, 2001),
, Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: From Abbott and Costello
Meet Frankenstein to Alien: Resurrection (State
University of New York Press, forthcoming, 2003) and The Holocaust Film
Sourcebook (Fiction, Documentary, Propaganda), 3 volumes (Praeger, forthcoming).
She has published articles in film criticism, aesthetics, social and political
philosophy, feminism and philosophy, philosophy/sociology of science, law and
critical theory, and phenomenology, as well as some 80+ popular pieces on Philippine
art and culture as a columnist in various Korean and U.S. newspapers and magazines.
Research-related websites
http://english.fsu.edu/picart
(includes links to courses and much other material)
http://english.fsu.edu/faculty/kpicart.htm
Course-related
websites
http://english3.fsu.edu/~kpicart/humfilm
http://english3.fsu.edu/~kpicart/humrights