Jan Čulík

Jan Čulík

Jan Čulík (born November 2, 1952 Prague) is an independent Czech journalist and academic. He is the founder and editor of the independent Czech Internet daily Britské listy since 1996.

Background

Čulík is a graduate of Czech studies and English studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague (1977, PhDr 1978.) In the 1980s, he worked as a television producer in the United Kingdom, making films for Channel 4 Television. He also cooperated with a number of Czech dissident organisations in the West, helping to disseminate information about communist oppression in Czechoslovakia. Beginning in 1989, Čulík worked as an investigative journalist for the Czech service of Radio Free Europe.

Recent activity

Čulík is now Senior Lecturer in Czech Studies at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and the author of several publications in this field, including the first detailed study of Czech emigré literature, "Books behind the Fence: Czech Literature in Emigré Publishing Houses 1971-1989," and a series of works comprising selections of articles from Britské Listy: "Jak Češi Myslí" ("How Czechs Think"), "Jak Češi Jednají" ("How Czechs Act") and "V Hlavních zprávách: Televize" ("On the Main News: Television"). In November 2007, he published an extensive monograph dealing with post-communist Czech cinema. [http://www.blisty.cz/2007/12/13/art37569.html Jací jsme: Česká společnost v hraném filmu devadesátých a nultých let. (What we are like: Czech society in feature film of the 1990s and 2000s, Host, Brno, 2007, 656 pp. colour plates, ISBN 9788072942541]

External links

* [http://www.blisty.cz Britské Listy]
* [http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Czech_media.doc Čulík's 2002 study of the Czech media]
* [http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/Slavonic/Czech_Media_now.htm Another analysis of the Czech media]
* [http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/culik_archive/culik_main.html Contributions on Czech affairs to Central Europe Review]

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