Harriet Malinowitz

Harriet Malinowitz is an American academic scholar specializing in lesbian and gay issues in higher education, women's studies, the rhetoric of Zionism and Palestine, and writing theory and pedagogy.

Life and work

A Professor of English at Long Island University, Malinowitz earned her Ph.D. from New York University.

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."

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!

Selected bibliography

Books

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

Book chapters

• Malinowitz, Harriet (2008). "The Writer-passion of a Feminist Dilettante". In Siebler, Kay. Composing Feminism(s). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. 
• Malinowitz, Harriet (1998). "A Feminist Critique of Writing in the Disciplines". In Jarratt, Susan; Worsham, Lynn. 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. 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. The Right to Literacy. New York: Modern Language Association of America. 

Articles

• Malinowitz, Harriet (January 2003). "Business, Pleasure, and the Personal Essay". College English. 65 (3): 305–322. doi:10.2307/3594260. 
• 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. 
• Malinowitz, Harriet (1996). "David and Me". JAC. 16 (1): 209–223.