About

• since 2020: Lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies
• since 2020: Lecturer in the master's programme Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation
• 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 teaching assistant at the Chair of Development and Variation of the English Language
• since 2011: B.Sc. in Computational Linguistics at the University of Potsdam
• 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: Magistra Artium in Romance and English/American Studies at the University of Potsdam

Research projects

• PhD thesis: Cultural conceptualisations of GENDER and HOMOSEXUALITY in Indian and Nigerian English
• M.A. thesis: English in the Linguistic Landscape of Hong Kong – A Case Study of Shop Signs and Linguistic Competence

Research interests

• Cognitive Sociolinguistics
• Cultural Linguistics
• World Englishes
• Cognitive Contact Linguistics
• Cognitive Linguistics
• Multimodality
• Gender and language
• Lavender Linguistics
• Research-oriented teaching

Teaching

• since 2022: Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation II
• since 2020: Interkulturelle Wirtschaftskommunikation I
• since 2020: Writing Linguistic Papers
• since 2020: Übersetzungspraktikum
• 2020-2021: English B2 for IWK students
• SoSe 2016: Metaphor Variation in Englishes around the World
• SoSe 2016: Researching the Effect of Social Variables on Language Use
• SoSe 2016: Introduction to Synchronic Linguistics Pt. 2
• SoSe 2015: Multimodal Metaphors
• WiSe 2014/15: Gender Issues in Linguistics
• WiSe 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)
• 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

• 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). Innate or acquired? HOMOSEXUALITY and cultura models of GENDER in Indian and Nigerian English. In H.-G. Wolf, D. Latic, & A. Finzel (eds.), Cultural-liguistic explorations into spirituality, emotionality, and society, pp. 185–212. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• 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/

Memberships

• since 2014: International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)
• since 2012: Potsdam Graduate School (PoGS)