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 Israel/Palestine, and writing theory and pedagogy.

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.
Notable works by Malinowitz include Textual Orientiations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities, 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!
She has taught at the CUNY [School of Professional Studies] and Hunter College.

Selected bibliography

Book chapters

  • Malinowitz, Harriet.. "Liberal Human 'Rights' Discourse and Sexual Citizenship." In Alexander, Jonathan; Rhodes, Jacqueline Sexual Rhetorics. Routledge, 2016.

Articles

  • Malinowitz, Harriet. "Torches and Metonyms of Freedom". The Writing Instructor.