Name Harriet Malinowitz | Books Textual orientations | |
Occupation Academic, Professor of English, Scholar Genre queer theory, ethnography, rhetorical studies, liberatory pedagogy Notable works Textual Orientations:Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities | ||
TextualOrientations:HarrietMalinowitz
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.
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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!