The researcher will carry out teaching and research activities for the GDS and SSD being selected. In possession of a solid theoretical framework, with philological and historical-literary skills, he/she will have to deal with investigations relating to the works and authors of Italian Literature, with specific skills on its formative moments, the authors of the first literary canon, the works considered fundamental to our tradition, the relationships with nearby Romance and European literatures starting from the medieval era. Specifically, she/he will have to deal with the history of Italian literature, literary forms and genres, the relationships between literary production and overall cultural development in different eras, with individual authors. It will be necessary to make use of a plurality of methodological orientations about a historical, philological, linguistic, critical-hermeneutic, stylistic and textual exegesis.