Teaching:
- Czech language - Level 1 to 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; economic, cultural and political developments in Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic since 1989
- Slavonic Studies - blocks on Levels 1A, 1B, 2A and 2B
- Comparative Literature 2A, 3B - blocks on Hrabal, Kundera, Škvorecký
- lectures in Byzantium and the Slavs, Dept. of History
- Block on Contemporary Czech Media and Politics, Central European Studies, Level 2
- lectures in Censorship in Western Culture, in cooperation with the History Department
- 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
Research:
Emigré Czech Literature 1971- 1989, Contemporary Czech Literature, Czech Cinema, in particular since 1989, contemporary Czech media, society and politics.
Publications:
- Jaci jsme: Ceska spolecnost v hranem filmu devadesatych a nultych let (What we are like: Czech society in feature film of the 1990s and 2000s), 656pp., Host, Brno, 2007, ISBN 978-80-7294-254-1 Excerpts in English are HERE
- Jak Ceši bojují (How Czechs Fight) 704 pp., Prague, Libri, 2003, ISBN 80-72772-24-4 the complete text of this work is available in digital form HERE
- V hlavních zprávách: Televize (On the Main News: Television) 366 pp., Prague, ISV Publishers, 2001, ISBN 80-85866-78-1 (with Tomáš Pecina) the complete text of this work is available in digital form HERE
- ...jak Ceši jednají. (How Czechs Act) 578 pp., Chomutov, Milenium, 2000, ISBN 80-86201-17-1
- ...jak Ceši myslí. (How Czechs Think) 477 pp., Chomutov, Milenium Publishing, 1999, ISBN 80-86201-14-7
- Knihy za ohradou: Ceská 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 - the complete text of this work is available in digital form HERE
Recent lectures:
- "Censorship in Czechoslovakia 1970 - 1989" . A lecture given at a conference on censorship, University College, London, on 25th April, 2008. - A related PowerPoint presentation is here.
- Czech Feature Film since 1989, a lecture given at the AHRC/Glasgow University symposium "Reading European Film", 15th January 2008 (and extended and reworked for the CRCEES Glasgow University "Festival of Words", presentation on 21st April, 2008.) A related PowerPoint presentation.
- "The Prague Spring as reflected in Czech postcommunist cinema" . A lecture given at the CRCEES Glasgow University conference dealing with Czechoslovakia in 1948 and 1948, on 3rd April, 2008. - A related PowerPoint presentation is here.
- "Czechoslovakia under Communism: A Popular Opinion" . A lecture presented at the University of Siena on 2nd June, 2006.
Chapters in books - substantive analytical articles:
- Journalism, Communication and the Media, Kokkalis Foundation, Olympia 2005 Summer Sessions, Olympia, 2005, 2 vols., pp. 30-55 (with Ellen Mickiewicz and Slavko Šplíchal)
- "The Czech Republic“, pp. 31-42, in: Mary Kelly et al, The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Handbook, Sage Publications, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, 2004, ISBN 0-7619-4132-0
- "Czech Republic", vol.1, pp. 621 – 631, "Josef Škvorecký", vol. 4, pp. 2256-2258 in: Derek Jones (ed.) Censorship: a world encyclopedia (4 vols.) London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001, ISBN 1579581358
- "Václav Havel (1936 - )", pp. 110-130; "Miroslav Holub (1923 – 1998)", pp. 139-145 (with Jirí Holý); "Ivan Klíma (1931 - )", pp. 173-180 (with Jirí Holý); "Milan Kundera (1929 - )", pp. 208 – 226; "Josef Škvorecký (1924 - )", pp. 336 – 351 (with Martin Pilar); "Ludvík Vaculík (1926 – )", pp. 386 – 392 in: Steven Serafin (ed.) Twentieth-Century Eastern European Writers, Third Series, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 232, Bruccoli Clark Layman, The Gale Group, London and Boston, 2001, ISBN 0-7876-4649-0
- Entries on Hakl and Viewegh for a DLB volume on Central and East European post-communist writers, forthcoming, 2008.
- "Muže Ceská televize významneji prispívat k rozvoji demokracie v CR? – [Can Czech TV make a substantial contribution to the development of democracy in the Czech Republic?"] in Ceská televize: Vec verejná, Prague, Czech Television, 2000, pp. 5 – 25, ISBN 80-85005-31-X
- "Tschechisches literarisches Leben im Exil 1971-1989. Versuch einer Bestandsaufnahme" in Im Dissens zur Macht, Samizdat und Exilliteratur der Laender Ostmittel- und Suedosteuropas, Berlin, Akademie Verlag, GmbH, 1995, pp. 69-84, ISBN 3-05-002629-4
Other chapters in books:
- "Czech Republic: A Brand New Copyright Act", pp. 107-112, in: Lee B. Becker and Tudor Vlad (ed.), Copyright and Consequences: Central European and US Perspectives, Hampton Press, Inc., Cresskill, New Jersey, 2003, ISBN 1-57273-415-9
- "Sdelovací prostredky nejsou prekážkou komunikace (The Media are not an Obstacle), pp. 29-34, in: Petr Žantovský (ed.) Média jako prekážka v komunikaci? [The Media as an Obstacle Preventing Communication?], Vivo and Votobia Publishers, Prague, 2002, ISBN 80-7220-141-7
- "The Czech Novel" (pp. 273-277); "Good Soldier Švejk" (pp. 492-493); "Bohumil Hrabal" (pp. 562-563); "Milan Kundera" (pp. 682-683), in: Paul Schellinger (ed.) , Encyclopaedia of The Novel, London, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999, ISBN 1-57958-015-7
"Exil jako otevrení mysli“ [Exile as an Opening of One´s Mind], pp. 48 – 54, Literatura, vezení, exil : sborník príspevku z konference "Literatura ve vezení a exilu - vezení a exil v literature," konané 29.2.-2.3. 1996 v Praze [Literature, prison exil: a volume of contributions to the conference "Literature in prison and in exile – prison and exile in literature]; Prague : Readers International : Ceské centrum Mezinárodního PEN klubu, 1997, ISBN 8090181333
Papers in refereed journals:
- "De tsjechische sociaal-democratie, de mach en de media: Terug naar af?" Oost-Europa Verkenningen, Amsterdam, Instituut voor Publiek en Politiek, No.164, June 2001, pp. 6 – 20, ISBN 90-6473-395-3, ISSN 0166-5146
- "The Reception of Czech Independent Literature since 1989", East and Central European Emigre Literatures: Past, Present - and Future?, ed. by Martin Dewhirst and Andrei Rogatchevskii, Canadian American Slavic Studies, vol. 33, nos 2-4, 1999, pp. 139-152, ISSN 0090-8290
- Hakl a Viewegh: jak se vyrovnat s banalitou života (Hakl and Viewegh: How to come to terms with the banality of life)", Ceska literatura, 55, 2007, no 5, pp. 669-706
- Man, a wide garden: Milan Kundera as a young Stalinist". Glasgow Enlighten Enprints, November 2007. Forthcoming also in Blok, miedzynarodowe pismo poswiecone kulturze stalinowskiej i poststalinowskiej, Poland.
Electronic publications:
- Chief editor and co-author of Britské listy, ISSN 1213-1792, published in Prague by the Britské listy Association, passim, 1996 – 2005. Britské listy - list of articles.
- "From unintentional political birth to prolonged political crisis", written by Andrew Stroehlein, Jan Culík, Steven Saxonberg and Kazi Stastna, Central Europe Review, vol.1, No. 12, 1999







