Rector

Prof. Valentina Garavaglia

The Rector represents the entire university community, has the task of initiative, implementation and supervision, ensures coordination between the central governing bodies of the University and represents the university when this is required by law. His or her mandate lasts six years and cannot be renewed: election is by the Board of Directors which expresses itself on a trio of names indicated by the Academic Senate. The Rector is appointed by decree of the Minister of Education, University and Research.

Valentina Garavaglia, Full Professor of Theatre in the Faculty of Communication and former Deputy Pro-rector and Pro-rector with proxy for Education, is the new Rector of IULM University from November 1, 2024, for the six-year period 2024-2030.

Milanese, born in 1974, married and mother of twins, she holds a degree in Modern Literature from the University of Milan.
In 2010, she joined the IULM ranks and from there she continued to lead studies and research on the history of theatre and the role of the performing arts as a tool for the formation, construction and expression of the individual, with particular attention to developments in prison theater.
Alongside his academic activity, Garavaglia has been active in theatre as the head of artistic coordination of festivals and projects in important Italian and international theater institutions.
In 2015 he won the 20th edition of the Luigi Pirandello National Theater Prize with his work L'effimero e l'eterno: l'esperienza teatrale di Gibellina (Bulzoni).

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