Harriet Malinowitz

Former Professor of English at Long Island University, Malinowitz is currently Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies at Ithaca College.^[1] She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from New York University.^[2]

Notable works by Malinowitz include Textual Orientiations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities (Heinemann, 1995), an ethnographic study focusing on the community emerging in a college course that examines lesbian and gay experience. Textual Orientations highlights the productive intersections of two academic fields: rhetoric and composition and lesbian and gay studies while providing a pedagogical model that values the "vantage point of the social margin."^[3]

Malinowitz is also a writer of lesbian stand-up comedy, most notably for her partner Sara Cytron's shows A Dyke Grows in Brooklyn and Take My Domestic Partner--Please!^[4]

She has taught at the CUNY School of Professional Studies and Hunter College.

• Malinowitz, Harriet (1995). Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers: Heinemann.

• Malinowitz, Harriet. (016). "Liberal Human 'Rights' Discourse and Sexual Citizenship." In Alexander, Jonathan; Rhodes, Jacqueline (eds.) Sexual Rhetorics. Routledge, 2016.
• Malinowitz, Harriet (2008). "The Writer-passion of a Feminist Dilettante". In Siebler, Kay (ed.). Composing Feminism(s). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Malinowitz, Harriet (1998). "A Feminist Critique of Writing in the Disciplines". In Jarratt, Susan; Worsham, Lynn (eds.). Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words. New York: Modern Language Association of America.
• Malinowitz, Harriet (1996). "Lesbian Studies and Postmodern Queer Theory". In Zimmerman, Bonnie; McNaron, Toni A. H. (eds.). The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty First Century. New York: Feminist Press.
• Malinowitz, Harriet (1990). "The Rhetoric of Empowerment in Writing Programs". In Lunsford, Andrea; Moglen, Helene; Slevin, James F. (eds.). The Right to Literacy. New York: Modern Language Association of America.

• Malinowitz, Harriet (2015). "Torches and Metonyms of Freedom". The Writing Instructor (Special issue: Queer and now).
• Malinowitz, Harriet (January 2003). "Business, Pleasure, and the Personal Essay". College English. 65 (3): 305–322. doi:10.2307/3594260. JSTOR 3594260.
• Malinowitz, Harriet (2002). "Unmotherhood". JAC. 22 (1): 11–36.
• Malinowitz, Harriet (September 1999). "Textual Trouble in River City: Literacy, Rhetoric, and Consumerism in The Music Man". College English. 62 (1): 58–82. doi:10.2307/378899. JSTOR 378899.
• Malinowitz, Harriet (1996). "David and Me". JAC. 16 (1): 209–223.