Professor Hufford is interested in flowering plant evolution. His research uses phylogenetic systematics to address problems of evolutionary relationships and explore diversification processes. He is particularly interested in the roles of developmental evolution in morphological diversification. His recent research on developmental evolution has focused on avenues of floral diversification and their taxonomic implications, differential rates of morphological change, and the basis of homoplasy. His publications include, "Potential roles of scaling and post-anthesis developmental changes in the evolution of floral forms of Eucnide (Loasaceae)," Nordic Journal of Botany; "Rosidae and their relationships to other nonmagnoliid dicotyledons: A phylogenetic analysis using morphological and chemical data," Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden; "A phylogenetic analysis of Besseya (Scrophulariaceae)," International Journal of Plant Sciences; "Shoot architecture and evolution of Dicentra cucullaria (Papaveraceae, Fumarioideae)," International Journal of Plant Sciences; and "Patterns of ontogenetic evolution in perianth diversification of Besseya (Scrophulariaceae)," American Journal of Botany. Visit his blog: botanizing
Professor Lee teaches courses in nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, literature and art, and narrative writing. Some of her recent courses include, "19th-Century Literature of the British Empire and the Americas," "The Reciprocal Gaze: Travel and Travel Writing as Creative and Critical Practice," "Literary Nonfiction: Telling Stories Through Investigative Journalism, Memoir, Cultural Criticism, Historical Narrative, Travel Writing" and William Blake: Text and Image. Lee has articles in journals such as the TLS, Studies in Romanticism, and Cultural Critique, and several books including Slavery and the Romantic Imagination (UPennPress, 2002; 2004), Literature, Science and Exploration in the Romantic Era: Bodies of Knowledge, (co-authored, Cambridge, 2004; 2007); and Romantic Liars: Obscure Women Who Became Impostors and Challenged an Empire (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2006).
