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Dr. Anna Finzel

Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer

Principal investigator in “Digital Communities and Online Intercultural Competence”

address: Campus Am Neuen Palais
Am Neuen Palais 10
Building 19, Room 1.29
14469 Potsdam

opening time: consulting hours
By arrangement

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/