Jan Čulík (born 2 November 1952 in Prague) is a Czech academic and independent journalist.

He also worked with a number of Czech dissident organisations in the West, helping to disseminate information about pre-1989 oppression in Czechoslovakia.

Beginning in 1989, Čulík worked as an investigative journalist for the Czech service of Radio Free Europe.

In November 2007, he published an extensive monograph about Czech cinema since the fall of Communism.

[2] In November 2012, he published a monograph dealing with the stereotypes disseminated by post-communist Czech feature film entitled A Society in Distress: The Image of the Czech Republic in Contemporary Czech Feature Film,[1][3] and in September 2013 he published, in cooperation with six other international scholars, a monograph entitled National Mythologies in Central European TV Series: How J.R. won the Cold War.