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Governing bodies

01. Department Manager

The Manager represents the Department. He/she is elected among the tenured professors, by the Department Council in its entirety, and holds the position for four years.

The Department Manager, who chairs the Council, is Prof. Michele Mastroianni (four-year period 2023-2027).

The Assistant Manager is Prof. Iolanda Poma

02. Department Council

This is the governing body chaired by the Manager. It is made up of: tenured professors, researchers, representatives of the administrative technical staff and students.

Members:

Roles People
Department Manager Michele MASTROIANNI (four-year period 2023-2027)
Assistant Manager of the Department Iolanda POMA (four-year period 2023-2027)
Visiting and full professors  
Associate professors  
Researchers  
Representatives of the administrative and technical staff (2023/2027)
  • Klodiana AVDI
  • Graziella COLAIANNI
  • Leo STELITANO
  • Elisabetta LAUDIERO
Student representatives (2025-2027)
  • Jacopo MONGIÒ
  • Marie Christine SELEA
  • Nicole ZULLINI
Representative of PhD students (2025-2027)
  • Edoardo FRANCIA
Representatives of the research assistants (2023-2027)
  • Gloria ZUCCARELLI

 

03. Department Executive Board

​The Board assists the Manager in his/her duties.
The Chair of the Board is the Manager of the Department: prof. Michele Mastroianni
The Vice-Chair of the Board is the Assistant Manager of the Department: prof.ssa Iolanda Poma

Members

The Manager, Assistant Manager and Course Chairs are automatically members. The other members will be elected by the Department Council within their respective categories. 

04. Joint Teacher-Student Committee (CPDS)

Each Department (and the School, in the case of the Medical Departments) elects a Joint Teacher-Student Committee with equal number of teachers and students, where possible representatives of all the courses pertaining to the Department or School.
To guarantee impartiality, the Committee must not include the Course Chairs, Department Managers or School Chair. The Joint Committee is coordinated by a teacher selected among the committee members.

The Committee has the task of:

  • ongoing monitoring of the courses provided and teaching quality, as well as student services offered by teachers and researchers
  • identifying indicators to assess results of teaching
  • providing opinions on the activation or cancellation of courses
  • drafting an annual report.

Here below is the composition of the Joint Teacher-Student Committee of the Department, divided by course.

COMPOSITION OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE

Course

Teacher

Student

Philosophy and Communication

Matteo Pollone

Jacopo Borile

Foreign and Modern Languages

Andrea Baldissera

Simone Fantin

Literature

Cecilia Gibellini

Giulia Achino

Philology and Cultural Heritage

Vittorio Tigrino (Chair)

Marie Christine Selea

Languages, Culture, Tourism

Stefania Ferrari

Ilaria Ganeo

Political Philosophy and Cultural Studies

Maria Teresa Monti 

Andrea Giordana 

You can access here the minutes from meetings of the Joint Teacher-Student Committee.

In this section you can find the Committee Reports.

05. Degree Course Councils

Each course has its own Council, chaired by the Course Chair and comprising: tenured professors, researchers and student representatives.

The Degree Course Council is responsible for the decisions concerning the specific didactics of the degree course.

Courses, chairs and student representatives:

 

Course Chair Student representatives
Philosophy and Communication (course code LT5 Philosophy) prof. Silvia FAZZO
  • Jacopo MONGIÒ
Literature (course code LT10 Literature) prof. Alice BORGNA  - Delegate for Alessandria: prof. Vittorio TIGRINO
  • Engelien Cesira CECCHETTIN
  • Elisabetta ROGOLINO
  • Ludovica NICCHIO
Modern Languages (course code LT11 Modern languages and culture) prof. Laura TOMMASO
  • Andrea PLINGU
  • Thomas VIVIAN
  • Susanna FARINA
Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies (interclass LM-62 and LM-78) prof.  Enrico BIALE
  • Andrea GIORDANA
  • Edoardo GAIA
Philosophy (course code LM78 Philosophy, Course currently being run down) prof. Iolanda POMA  
Philology and cultural heritage (course code LM14 Modern Philology) prof. Simone Attilio BELLEZZA
  • Marie Christine SELEA
Languages, Culture, Tourism (course code LM-37 Modern European and American Languages and literature, and LM-49 Design and management of tourism systems) prof. Elena GIOVANNINI
  • Lorenzo D'ALESSANDRO
  • Ilaria GANEO

 

 

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