Senior Lecturer, Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow. Graduate of Czech and English, Charles University, Prague, 1977, PhDr received in 1978. In 1978-1983 he worked as Lecturer in Czech Studies at Glasgow and Lancaster Universities, since 1995 he has been working as Lecturer and now Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow.
In 1983-1995 he was co-director of an independent film company, working on commission for the British Channel Four TV, one of its films was screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984. In 1989-1995 he worked as a reporter and commentator for the Czechoslovak Service of Radio Free Europe. In the 1980s, he translated short pieces of fiction into English by Jaroslav Hutka, Karel Pecka and Arnošt Lustig; he also closely cooperated as translator and analyst with Vilém Prečan´s Documentation Centre for Czechoslovak Independent Literature in Scheinfeld, Germany, the Oxford-based East European Publishing Project and Jan Kavan´s London-based Palach Press news agency for which he prepared English-language versions of Charter 77 ´s fortnightly bulletins
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Current research topics:
Social self examination and myth-making in the Czech Republic, using literature and cinema as material culture. Emigré Czech Literature 1971- 1989, Contemporary Czech Literature, Czech Cinema, in particular since 1989, contemporary Czech media, society and politics.
Editorial work:
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in cooperation with Professor Jiří Holý of Charles University, holder of the European 2008 Humboldt Prize for Academic Excellence, JČ co-translated, edited and published Holý´s Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature since 1945 (2007) – first English language history of Czech Literature published in 35 years.
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Jan Čulík was Editor of the Czech entries on 20th and 21st century Czech literature for three volumes of the American Dictionary of Literary Biography, New York, London and Boston (vols. 215, 232 and 251). He also wrote the entries on Milan Kundera, Václav Havel, Emil Hakl and Michal Viewegh.
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Jan Čulík is Editor-in-Chief and a frequent contributor of a widely-read Czech cultural and political internet daily Britské listy (www.blisty.cz) (the periodical was founded in 1996 and currently has some 200 000 individual readers per month).
Selected Book Publications:
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Jací jsme: Česká společnost v hraném filmu devadesátých a nultých let (Czech society in feature film of the 1990s and 2000s), 656pp., Host, Brno, 2007, ISBN 978-80-7294-254-1
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Knihy za ohradou: Česká literatura v exilových nakladatelstvích 1971 – 1989 (Books behind the Fence: Czech Literature in Emigré Publishing Houses), 420 pp., Prague, Trizonia, 1991, ISBN 80-900953-8-0
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V hlavních zprávách: Televize (On the Main News: Television) 366 pp., Prague, ISV Publishers, 2001, ISBN 80-85866-78-1 (with Tomáš Pecina)
