Dr Jan Culik

- Senior Lecturer in Czech (Russian)
telephone: 01413305588
email: Jan.Culik@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests:
Emigré Czech Literature 1971- 1989, Contemporary Czech Literature, Czech Cinema, in particular since 1989, contemporary Czech media, society and politics.
Editorial work:
- 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.
- Jan Čulík is Editor of the Czech entries on 20th century literature for three volumes of the American Dictionary of Literary Biography, New York, London and Boston (vols. 215 and 232, the volume on the literature of the post-communist era is forthcoming).
2013
Culik, J. (2013) Cinema, religion and Czech national identity. In: Berezhnaya, L. and Schmitt, C. (eds.) Iconic Turns: Nation and Religion in Eastern European Cinema since 1989. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 159-182. ISBN 9789004252776
Culik, J. (2013) 'Karel Čapek: A Writer for Our Times?'. Russian Literature . ISSN 0304-3479 (In Press)
2012
Culik, J. (2012) Postoj k práci v českém filmu: od nicnedělání k zotročení nezaměstnaností. Labyrint Revue, 2011 (29-30). pp. 189-195. ISSN 1210-6887
Culik, J. (2012) Za skandaly britskych medií muze kultura astronomicky placenych manazeru, tvrdíi publicista Culik. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2012) Jan Culik in a public debate with Eric Best, the editor of the Prague based journal Fleet Sheet [YouTube video]. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2012) Jan Culik in a public debate with Roman Joch, senior adviser to the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic [YouTube video]. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2012) Jan Čulík interviewed for Czech TV documentary "Národ mystifikace". [Audio]
Culik, J. (2012) Jan Čulík on films at the 47th Karlovy Vary International Film Festiva. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2012) Jan Culik, SNP launches its independence campaign. [Audio]
Culik, J. (interviewee) (2012) The Prague trial. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2012) Co je dobrá novinářská praxe. In: Remunda, F. (ed.) Kamerou, Tužkou i Sprejem. Politicky Nekorektní Příručka pro Začínající Novináře, Filmaře i Umělce. Educon, Prague.
Culik, J. (2012) The Holocaust as a metaphor of oppression during the times of Husák’s normalization. In: Holy, J. (ed.) The Representation of the Shoah in Literature, Theatre and Film in Central Europe: 1970s and 1980s. Akropolis, Prague, pp. 189-206. ISBN 9788074700224
Culik, J. (2012) Jiri Menzel and the construction of historical experience in his films dealing with traumatic 20th century events. In: von Puttkamer, J. and Borodziej, W. (eds.) "Europa und sein Osten. Geschichtskulturelle Herausfoderungen" (Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert. Schriften des Imre Kertész Kollegs Bd. 1). Oldenbourg Verlag, München, pp. 25-46.
Culik, J. (2012) Kulturní vzorce v mezinárodním srovnání a v českém filmu. In: Bílek, P.A., Papoušek, V., Skalický, D. and Veberová, V. (eds.) Jazyky Reprezentace. Akropolis, Prague, pp. 221-231. ISBN 9788087481677
Culik, J. (2012) Role vzdělance ve veřejném prostoru – případ Česká republika Ohlédnutí po šestnácti letech. In: Hlavacek, , P. (ed.) Intelektuál ve Veřejném Prostoru. Series: Edice XXI. stoleti . Academia, Prague, pp. 199-208.
Culik, J. (2012) Sex, embarrassment and cruelty. Studies in East European Cinema, 3 (1). ISSN 2040-350X (doi:10.1386/seec.3.1.89_4 )
Culik, J. (2012) A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film. Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, UK. ISBN 9781845195519
2011
Culik, J. (2011) An interview with Jan Culik with France 24 TV on the occasion of Václav Havel's funeral. Broadcast on 23rd December 2011, 20.05. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2011) An interview with Jan Culik on the death of Czech President Václav Havel, BBC Radio Scotland, 19th December 2011, 8.20am. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2011) An interview with Jan Culik with France 24 TV on the death of Václav Havel. Broadcast on 19th December 2011, 21.25. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2011) An interview with Jan Culik on the death of Czech President Václav Havel. Sky News, 18th December 2011, 17.20. A video file. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2011) Postscript z podzimu 2011 (additional information from the autumn 2011). In: Jak myslí Rupert Murdoch. Computer Press, Brno, Czech Republic, pp. 221-229. ISBN 9788025126325
Culik, J. (2011) Current Czech opinion of the pre-1989 and post-1989 regimes: remarkable levels of dissatisfaction. In: Hayoz, N., Jesien, L. and Koleva, D. (eds.) Twenty Years after the Breakdown of Communism in CEE: Promises, Meanings and Implications of 1989. University of Fribourg, Switzerland, pp. 461-494.
Culik, J. (2011) Intimate lighting. In: Bingham, A. (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: East Europe. Gardners Books, pp. 29-30. ISBN 9781841504643
Culik, J. (2011) Marketa Lazarova. In: Bingham, A. (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: East Europe. Gardners Books, pp. 89-90. ISBN 9781841504643
Culik, J. (2011) Peter and Paula. In: Bingham, A. (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: East Europe. Gardners Books, pp. 236-238. ISBN 9781841504643
Culik, J. (2011) The bizarre and the unusual under socialism. Studies in East European Cinema, 2 (2). pp. 240-242. ISSN 2040-350X (doi:10.1386/seec.2.2.227_4)
Culik, J. (2011) The white lady. In: Bingham, A. (ed.) Directory of World Cinema: East Europe. Gardners Books, pp. 32-34. ISBN 9781841504643
2010
Culik, J. (2010) A video interview with Jan Culik with Czech television. The "Pred pulnoci" (Before Midnight) programme, 4th May 2010, 28 minutes. [Audio]
Culik, J. (2010) What is the Czech Republic about? Edinburgh Review, 128 . pp. 59-66. ISSN 0267-6672
Culik, E., and Culik, J. (2010) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009: a remarkable showcase of contemporary cinema. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 1 (1). pp. 119-126. ISSN 2040-350X
Culik, J. (2010) Czech TV and complicity in times of "Normalisation". Studies in East European Cinema . pp. 96-100. ISSN 2040-350X
Culik, J. (2010) Dnešní Británie - fikce a skutečnost. In: Romain Slocombe, Lolita Complex. Odeon, Prague, pp. 345-356. ISBN 9782213631813
Culik, J. (2010) Emil Hakl. In: Serafin, S. and Mihailovich, V.D. (eds.) Twenty-first-century Central and Eastern European Writers. Series: Dictionary of Literary Biography, 353 . The Gale Group, pp. 104-111. ISBN 9780787681715
Culik, J. (2010) Jak Hrabal přemohl Menzela. In: Fedrová, S. (ed.) Česká Literatura v Intermediální Perspektivě. Ústav pro českou Literaturu AV ČR, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 177-187. ISBN 9788085778731
Culik, J. (2010) Michal Viewegh. In: Serafin, S. and Mihailovich, V.D. (eds.) Twenty-first-century Central and Eastern European Writers. Series: Dictionary of Literary Biography, 353 . The Gale Group, pp. 300-306. ISBN 9780787681715
Culik, J. (2010) Peter Hames, Czech and Slovak Cinema: Theme and Tradition. Studies in Eastern European Cinema . pp. 114-118. ISSN 2040-350X
2009
Culik, J. (2009) Jsme to my v tom šokujícím zrcadle? Literární Noviny . ISSN 1210-0021
Culik, J. (2009) Co by Češi měli dělat? Co je podstatou češství. Literární Noviny . pp. 1-8. ISSN 1210-0021
Culik, J. (2009) Lze Kunderovo dílo považovat za postmoderní mystifikaci? Literární Noviny (22). pp. 12-13. ISSN 1210-0021
(2009) History of Czech Literature 900-2000. In: Culik, J. (ed.) History of Czech Literature 900-2000. The Lincoln Library Press, Boston.
2008
Holy , J. (2008) Writers Under Siege: Czech Literature since 1945. Sussex University Press. ISBN 9781845191900
2007
Culik, J. (2007) Hakl a Viewegh: jak se vyrovnat s banalitou zivota [Hakl and Viewegh: how to come to terms with the banality of life]. Ceska Literatura, 55 (5). pp. 669-706. ISSN 0009-0468
Culik, J. (2007) Jací Jsme: Ceská Spolecnost v Hraném Filmu Devadesátých a Nultých Let. Host, Brno, Czech Republic. ISBN 9788072942541
Culik, J. (2007) Man, a wide garden: Milan Kundera as a young Stalinist. Blok, Miedzynarodowe Pismo Poswiecone Kulturze Stalinowskiej i Poststalinowskiej . ISSN 1644-4302
2005
Culik, J. (2005) 'Václav Havel: Civic Responsibility in the Postmodern Age' by James F. Pontuso. Europe: Asia Studies, 57 (8). 1243 -1246. ISSN 0966-8136 (doi:10.1080/09668130500352355)
2004
Culik, J. (2004) How the Czech story plays out. Prague Post, 14 (22). A6-A6.
2003
Culik, J. (2003) Czech Republic: a brand new copyright act. In: Becker, L.B. and Vlad, T. (eds.) Copyright and Consequences: Central European and U.S. Perspectives. Hampton Press, New Jersey, USA, pp. 107-112. ISBN 9781572734159
2002
Culik, J. (2002) 'Fenomén Kohout (The Kohout Phenomenon)' by Pavel Kosatík. Europe: Asia Studies, 54 (5 ). 815 -817. ISSN 0966-8136 (doi:10.1080/09668130220147065)
Culik, J. (2002) 'Slovakia after Communism and Mečiarism' edited by Kieran Williams". Europe: Asia Studies, 54 (1). pp. 161-163. ISSN 0966-8136 (doi:10.1080/09668130120098287)
Culik, J. (2002) Sdelovaci prostredky nejsou prekazkou komunikace. In: Barták, J. and Göncz, A. (eds.) Media Jako Prekazka v Komunikaci?: Soubor Textu z Mezinárodní Konference, Litomerice 2002. Votobia, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 29-34. ISBN 9788072201419
2001
Culik, J. (2001) Ludvik Vaculik. In: Serafin, S. (ed.) Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers. Series: Dictionary of literary biography (232). Gale Group, Detroit, USA, pp. 386-392. ISBN 9780787646493
Culik, J. (2001) Milan Kundera. In: Serafin, S. (ed.) Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers. Series: Dictionary of literary biography (232). Gale Group, Detroit, USA, pp. 208-226. ISBN 9780787646493
Culik, J. (2001) Václav Havel. In: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Bruccoli Clark Layman. The Gale Group, London, pp. 110-130. ISBN 0-7876-4649-0
Culik, J., and Holy, J. (2001) Ivan Klima. In: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Bruccoli Clark Layman. The Gale Group, London, Boston, Detroit, San Francisco, pp. 173-179.
Culik, J., and Holy, J. (2001) Miroslav Holub. In: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Bruccoli Clark Layman. The Gale Group, London, Boston, Detroit, San Francisco, pp. 139-145.
Culik, J., and Pecina, T. (2001) V hlavních zprávách: televize : fakta, která pred vámi zatajili. ISV Publishers, Prague. ISBN 9788085866780
Culik, J., and Pilar, M. (2001) Josef Skvorecky. In: Dictionary of Literary Biography. Bruccoli Clark Layman. The Gale Group, London, pp. 336-351.
2000
Serafin, S. and UNSPECIFIED, (Eds.) (2000) American Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers, Third Series. Gale, Detroit, USA. ISBN 9780787646493
1999
Culik, J. (1999) Alena Heitlinger & Susanna Trnka, 'Young Women of Prague'. Europe: Asia Studies, 51 (6). pp. 1119-1121. ISSN 0966-8136 (doi:10.1080/09668139998651)
Serafin, S. and UNSPECIFIED, (Eds.) (1999) American Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers, First Series. Gale, Detroit, USA. ISBN 9780787631093
Culik, J. (1999) The Czech novel. In: Schellinger, P.E., Hudson, C. and Rijsberman, M. (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Novel. Fitzroy Dearborn . ISBN 1579580157
Stroehlein, A., Culik, J., Saxonberg, S., and Stastna, K. (1999) From unintentional political birth to prolonged political crisis. Central Europe Review, 1 (12).
1995
Culik, J. (1995) Sebrané vytáčky Kamila Čermáka [The collected excuses of Kamil Čermák]. [Audio]
Culik, J. (1995) Tschechisches Literarisches Leben im Exil 1971-1989. Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme. In: Richter, L. and Olschowsky, H. (eds.) Im Dissens zur Macht: Samizdat und Exilliteratur der Laender Ostmittel- und Suedosteuropas. Series: Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mitteleuropa . Akademie Verlag, Berlin, pp. 69-84. ISBN 9783050026299
1991
Culik, J. (1991) Knihy za ohradou: Česká literatura v exilových nakladatelstvích 1971-1989 (Books Behind the Fence: Czech Literature in Emigré Publishing Houses 1971-1989). Trizonia Publishers, Prague.
Teaching:
- Course Convener, Honours Czech, Slavonic Studies Level 1A
- Czech language - Honours
- Literature/culture topics at Honours level - Czech Media; Czech Cinema; Early Czech Literature; Modern Czech Literature; Czech Emigré Literature 1971-1989; Czech Writers; History of the Czechs and Slovaks (Slavonic Studies); economic, cultural and political developments in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic since 1989 (CEES), History of Censorship, Byzantine and the Slavs (History)
- Slavonic Studies - blocks on Levels 1A, 1B, 2A and 2B
- Comparative Literature - blocks on Hrabal, Kundera, Škvorecký
- Via the Socrates/Erasmus exchange programme - courses in Czech Literature, media and cultural studies at Charles University, Prague, Masaryk University, Brno and Ostrava University
- Dr Culík runs a Socrates/Erasmus student exchange for students from the Czech Republic at Glasgow University
