We are deeply saddened to share the news that Dr Amanda Hopkins, Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Culture, has died.

"Amanda was an absolute live wire and her enthusiasm for her subject was absorbed by her students. She was a great facilitator and treated all her classes as workshops where students were expected to work hard and to get stuck into the texts they were studying. As well as being a brilliant teacher, Amanda was also a true intellectual and an artist with many talents. Outside of her academic work, she was a singer-songwriter who wrote and recorded three albums of music and who performed live regularly on the Coventry music scene."

Read more about Amanda's life and work in the tribute written by her colleagues, and share your own reflections in a book of condolence.

Colleagues, friends and students are welcome to attend the funeral on Monday 22 August, taking place at 1.45pm at Canley Crematorium.