About

• 04/2024-09/2024: Principal investigator within the BMBF-funded project “Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively”
• 05/2023-02/2024: Parental leave
• since 2020: Researcher and lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies
• since 2020: Lecturer in the master's programme Intercultural Business Communication
• 2019-2020: Science Management certificate
• 2018: Research stay in Manchester, England
• 2017: Research stay in Ibadan, Nigeria
• 2017: Research stay in Delhi, India
• 2014-2015: International Teaching Professional certificate
• 2012-2020: PhD candidate and lecturer at the Chair of Development and Variation of the English Language
• 2011: Teaching assistant at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina
• 2010: Research stay in Hong Kong
• 2007: Study stay at the University of Sunderland, England
• 2005-2012: M.A. in English/American Studies and Romance Studies at the University of Potsdam

Research projects

• The use and influence of digital media for social cohesion in diaspora communities (ongoing)
• Cultural models: Towards a unified theory and methodology (ongoing)
• Cultural models of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English (PhD project)
• English in the linguistic landscape of Hong Kong – A case study of shop signs and linguistic competence (MA project)

Research interests

• (Digital) intercultural communication
• Cognitive Sociolinguistics
• Cultural Linguistics
• World Englishes
• Cognitive Contact Linguistics
• Corpus linguistics
• Multimodality
• Language, gender and sexuality

Teaching

• winter 2024/25: Cultural models – Theory and methodology
• since 2022: Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation II (recurrent)
• since 2020: Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation I (recurrent)
• since 2020: Writing linguistic papers (recurrent)
• 2020-2023: Translation workshop (recurrent)
• 2020-2021: English B2 for IWK students
• summer 2016: Metaphor variation in Englishes around the world
• summer 2016: Researching the effect of social variables on language use
• summer 2016: Introduction to synchronic linguistics pt. 2
• summer 2015: Multimodal metaphors
• winter 2014/15: Gender issues in linguistics
• winter 2010/11: Selbstreflexion und Planung für Romanisten

Conferences organised

• 2019: Learning from Africa: Equal opportunities for women in academia (supported by the Koordinationsbüro für Chanchengleichheit and Hans-Georg Wolf)
• 2018:  3rd Workshop on Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World (assistant to the local organising committee)
• 2017: Multimodality in Linguistic Research – Workshop series (together with Milene Mendes de Oliveira)
• 2017: Morphogenesis and Virality of Right Wing Body of Thought in Germany, Italy and France (together with Eva Kimminich, Julius Erdmann, Amir Dizdarevic and Saman Hamdi)
• 2016: 2nd Workshop on Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World (together with Milene Mendes de Oliveira)
• 2015: Verschwörungstheorien in der aktuellen europäischen Krise. Argumentationsstrategien, kognitive Konzepte, Stereotypenbildung und Bildrhetorik (together with Eva Kimminich, Julius Erdmann, Mareen Belloff, Amir Dizdarevic and Saman Hamdi) --> awarded Potsdamer Kongress-Preis 2015
• 2011: Repräsentation – Virtualität – Praxis: 13. Internationaler Semiotik-Kongress (together with Eva Kimminich, Mara Persello and Julius Erdmann) --> awarded Potsdamer Kongress-Preis 2012

Talks

• 2022: Ibadan Workshop on Cultural Linguistics, Ibadan (Nigeria), online
• 2019: Contacts and Contrasts, Konin (Poland) --> invited plenary talk (together with Hans-Georg Wolf)
• 2018: 3rd Workshop on Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Klagenfurt (Austria)
• 2018: 2nd Cultural Linguistics International Conference, Landau (Germany)
• 2016: 1st International Conference of Cultural Linguistics, Prato (Italy)
• 2016: 2nd Workshop on Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Potsdam (Germany)
• 2015: 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
• 2015: 1st Workshop on Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World, Bremen (Germany)
• 2014: 1st Corpus-based Applied Linguistics Conference, Klagenfurt (Austria)
• 2013: Werkstattgespräche Centre “Language, Variation, and Migration“, Potsdam (Germany)

Publications (orcid)

• Finzel, A. (in prep.). Cultural models of gender and homosexuality in Indian and Nigerian English. [monograph]
• Finzel, A. (subm.). Cultural conceptualisations and cultural models of fertility and infertility in Nigerian English. World Englishes (special journal issue on Nigerian English).
• Finzel, A., & Wolf, H.-G. (fc.). Cognitive Contact Linguistics. In Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2nd ed.). Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Finzel, A., & Mundt, N. (fc.). Multimodal cultural conceptualizations and World Englishes. In The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Finzel, A. (2021). Innate or acquired? HOMOSEXUALITY and cultural models of GENDER in Indian and Nigerian English. In H.-G. Wolf, D. Latic, & A. Finzel (eds.), Cultural-linguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society, pp. 185–212. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Wolf, H.-G., Latic, D., & Finzel, A. (eds.) (2021). Cultural-linguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Finzel, A. (2021). Segregation and cooperation: Cultural models of GENDER in Indian and Nigerian English. In M. Callies, & M. Degani (eds.), Metaphor in language and culture across world Englishes, pp. 183–217. London: Bloomsbury.
• Finzel, A. (2021). A space for everybody? Conceptualisations of the hijras in Indian English as a showcase for the gendered space in Indian society. In M. Sadeghpour, & F. Sharifian (eds.), Cultural Linguistics and World Englishes, pp. 193–216. Singapore: Springer.
• Wolf, H.-G., Latic, D., & Finzel, A. (eds.) (2021). Cultural-liguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Wolf, H.-G., Latic, D., & Finzel, A. (2021). Introduction. In H.-G. Wolf, D. Latic, & A. Finzel (eds.), Cultural-liguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society, pp. 1–6. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Polzenhagen, F., Finzel, A., & Wolf, H.-G. (2021). Colonial cultural conceptualisations and World Englishes. In A. Onysko (ed.), Research developments in World Englishes, pp. 199–230. London: Bloomsbury.
• Finzel, A., & Wolf, H.-G. (2019). Conceptual metaphors as contact phenomena? The influence of local concepts on source and target domain. In E. Zenner, A. Backus, & E. Winter-Froemel (eds.), Cognitive Contact Linguistics: Placing Usage, Meaning and Mind at the Core of Contact-Induced Variation and Change, pp. 187-211. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Finzel, A., & Wolf, H.-G. (2017). Cultural conceptualizations of gender and homosexuality in British, Indian, and Nigerian English. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 4(1), 110–130.
• Finzel, A. (2016). Multimodal Metaphors in Films: PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS as a Gendered Conceptualization across Englishes. In L. Punga (ed.), Language in Use: Metaphors in Non-Literary Contexts, pp. 223-238. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Finzel, A. (2013). English in the Linguistic Landscape of Hong Kong – A Case Study of Shop Signs and Linguistic Competence. M.A. thesis. Available on opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6412/