Maserata – TheUniversity Macerata is preparing to pick a new guy Rector For the 2022-2088 Sexton, the successor to Francesco Adornato. Two candidates: John Francis McCourt, Professor of English Literature and Director of the Department of Humanities;

Voting will take place on Wednesday from 9.30am to 12.30pm at Polo Pantaloni via Pescheria. Two seats will be set up: in the blue room for all professors, researchers and student council members; In the green room for technical administrative staff and linguistic collaborators. If the first ballot is not won, a second ballot will be held from 3 to 6 p.m.

For elections, an absolute majority of those eligible is required in the first two votes. Otherwise, a vote between the two candidates will take place the next day. 590 professors have the right to vote: 203 full-time professors, 83 researchers, 19 members of the Student Council, 285 members of the Librarian Technical Administrative Staff, and linguistic collaborators. The vote of this last category is considered to be 33%, hence a total of 94 votes. Each voter can vote for only one candidate. The rector is selected from all the professors who have served in Italian universities and has been in office for six years and cannot be re-elected for a second term in a row.

Announces that the candidate who wins the majority will be chosen by Dean Luigi Lache, who will be appointed Minister of University and Research and will assume office on November 1, 2022, at the beginning of the next academic year. John Francis McCourt, current Director of the Department of Humanities, is President of the International James Joyce Foundation and a board member of the International Yeats Summer School. Prior to moving to Maserata, he taught at the University of Roma, where he was the director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Irish and Scottish Studies, and in 1997 he founded the Trieste Joyce School at Trieste University. He is the president. He has authored several books in English and Italian on James Joyce and Irish and English literature. Francesca Spigarelli is the head of Unimic’s China Center, and currently represents the Rector of Self-Employment, Technology Transfer, European Research Policy, and Research from 2021.

Among the working groups of the European Commission on Research in Human Resources, Dynamics and Participation are Italian Referee positions nominated by the Ministry of University and Research. He coordinated four projects in the Seventh Framework Program and Horizon Europe. Programs for both candidates are available at www.unimc.it/elezionirettore.

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