Arthur Clech
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Arthur Clech is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université Paris-Lumières (UPL); LEGS, CNRS/ Paris 8 - Vincennes - Saint-Denis and a research associate at the Center of the Russian and Caucasus Worlds and Central Europe (CERCEC, EHESS - Paris) and Eur'Orbem (Sorbonne). He is a historian, sociologist, and a specialist in Slavic Studies. Arthur Clech taught Russian and Soviet studies and Russian language at the Sorbonne. He was responsible, in particular, for courses in translation. In parallel, he has translated literature (Andreï Platonov) and philosophy (Valeri Podoroga). He has written a Ph.D. in history on "Homosexual subjectivities of the late Soviet Period: Between Solidarity and Culture of Suspicion", under the supervision of Alain Blum from the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris). He has written articles in Russian, French, and English that reexamine the history of Soviet homosexuality before and after Stalin’s criminalization of sodomy in 1934. One of his articles was distinguished by the Heldt Prize for the Best Article in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's/Gender Studies.
