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Paul Gladston

Paul Gladston (born 18 May 1964 in North Shields UK) is the inaugural Judith Neilson Chair Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He was trained at Edinburgh College of Art - BA (hons.) 1st Class, Drawing, Painting and Printmaking (1986) - and the University of Nottingham - Ph.D. Critical Theory (2004) and MA Critical Theory (1997).

The UNSW Judith Neilson Chair of Contemporary Art (JNCCA) leads an international network dedicated to research, advocacy and teaching in the field of contemporary art/cultural studies, with a particular emphasis on the Sinosphere (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and related diasporas) as well as East Asia more widely. The JNCCA is supported by a multi-million Australian dollar endowment gifted to UNSW by the philanthropist, gallery owner and collector of contemporary Chinese art Judith Neilson.

Gladston was previously the Professor of Visual Cultures and Critical Theory (2015-2018) and an Associate Professor in Culture, Film and Media (2010-2015) at the University of Nottingham, UK and, prior to that, the inaugural Head of the School of International Communications at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.

He was the founding Head of the Institute of Comparative Cultural Studies (ICCS), at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China (2005-2010) and the founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary East-Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS), at the University of Nottingham, UK (2012-2018). He was also the founding editor of the academic ''Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art'' (Intellect) (2014-2017) and is the founding editor of the scholarly book series Contemporary East Asian Visual Culture, Society and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan) (2020-present).

Gladston is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the journal ''Third Text'' (2023-present) and was a Guest Professor at the London campus of Sotheby’s Institute of Art (2017).

Paul Gladston is better known in China by the style name 葛思谛. Provided by Wikipedia