Harriet Malinowitz Explained

Harriet Malinowitz
Birth Name:	Harriet Malinowitz
Occupation:	Academic, Professor of English, Scholar
Notableworks:	Textual Orientations:Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities
Genre:	queer theory, ethnography, rhetorical studies, liberatory pedagogy

Harriet Malinowitz is an American academic scholar specializing in lesbian and gay issues in higher education, women's studies, the rhetoric of Zionism and Israel/Palestine, and writing theory and pedagogy.^[1]

Life and work

Former Professor of English at Long Island University, Malinowitz is currently Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies at Ithaca College. 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.

Selected bibliography

Books

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

Book chapters

• Malinowitz, Harriet. (016). "Liberal Human 'Rights' Discourse and Sexual Citizenship." In Alexander, Jonathan; Rhodes, Jacqueline (eds.) Sexual Rhetorics. Routledge, 2016.
• Book: Malinowitz. Harriet. Siebler. Kay. Composing Feminism(s). 2008. Hampton Press. Cresskill, NJ. The Writer-passion of a Feminist Dilettante.
• Book: Malinowitz. Harriet. Jarratt. Susan. Worsham. Lynn. Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words. 1998. Modern Language Association of America. New York. A Feminist Critique of Writing in the Disciplines.
• Book: Malinowitz. Harriet. Zimmerman. Bonnie. McNaron. Toni A. H.. The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty First Century. 1996. Feminist Press. New York. Lesbian Studies and Postmodern Queer Theory.
• Book: Malinowitz. Harriet. Lunsford. Andrea. Moglen, Helene. Slevin. James F.. The Right to Literacy. https://archive.org/details/righttoliteracy0000luns. registration. 1990. Modern Language Association of America. New York. The Rhetoric of Empowerment in Writing Programs.

Articles

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Harriet Malinowitz - Ithaca College. faculty.ithaca.edu. 2019-06-17. 2017-04-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20170424181513/http://faculty.ithaca.edu/hmalinowitz/. dead.
2. Web site: Harriet Malinowitz - Ithaca College. faculty.ithaca.edu. 2019-05-23. 2017-04-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20170424181513/http://faculty.ithaca.edu/hmalinowitz/. dead.
3. Book: Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities. Malinowitz. Harriet. Boynton/Cook Publishers: Heinemann. 1995. Portsmouth, NH.
4. Book: Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories. Haggerty. George. Zimmerman. Bonnie. 2000. Garland. New York. XXXV.