Stefanie Markovits, Professor of English, has been teaching at Yale since 2001. A graduate of Yale College, Markovits completed an M.Phil in English Romantic Studies at Oxford before returning to Yale for her Ph.D. Professor Markovits is the author of two books, The Crisis of Action in Nineteenth-Century English Literature (2006, winner of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize) and The Crimean War in the British Imagination (2009). She studies and teaches British literature of the long nineteenth century: Romantic and Victorian, poetry and the novel.