Georgia Walton specialises in US American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present. She is currently working on a monograph that looks at the legacies of the American renaissance in contemporary literature and has published articles on texts by writers Maggie Nelson, Marilynne Robinson and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Other research interests include the representation of fairgrounds and amusement parks, spatial theories and the relationship between literature and other technologies of representation such as photography and cinema.