AMANDA HOPKINS teaches in the department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the department of French at the University of Warwick.

Hopkins is a medievalist, with particular interest in the romance genre, especially Breton Lais and their dissemination in Europe, and in lycanthropy and other kinds of shape-shifting. She has also published on sexuality and disability. She read for a B. A. English and European Literature at Warwick, and was a postgraduate student in Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol. She has been teaching at the University of Warwick since 2002 for the the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, and since 2003 for the Department of French. She has also taught academic writing for the Academic Writing Programme and the Department of French, and now contributes to the School of Modern Languages’ academic writing provision.