Harriet Malinowitz is an American academic scholar specializing in lesbian and gay issues in higher education,

women's studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppress ...

, the rhetoric of Zionism and Israel/Palestine, and writing theory and

pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

Life and work

Former Professor of English at

Long Island University Long Island University (LIU) is a private university with two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It offers more than 500 academic programs at its main campuses, online, and at multiple non-residential. LIU ...

, Malinowitz is currently Lecturer in Women's and Gender Studies at

Ithaca College Ithaca College is a private college in Ithaca, New York. It was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the city of Ithaca (which is separate from the town), Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and go ...

. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

. 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 Queer studies, sexual diversity studies, or LGBT studies is the education of topics relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender dysphoria, asexual, queer, questioning, inter ...

while providing a pedagogical model that values the "vantage point of the social margin." Malinowitz is also a writer of lesbian

stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...

, 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 The CUNY School of Professional Studies (CUNY SPS) is a public university and is part of the City University of New York (CUNY). History In June of 2003, Neil Kleiman, then-director of the Center for an Urban Future, addressed the Board of Tru ...

and

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

Selected bibliography

Books

Book chapters

*Malinowitz, Harriet. (016). "Liberal Human 'Rights' Discourse and Sexual Citizenship." In Alexander, Jonathan; Rhodes, Jacqueline (eds.) ''Sexual Rhetorics''. Routledge, 2016. * * * *

Articles

*Malinowitz, Harriet (2015). "Torches and Metonyms of Freedom". ''The Writing Instructor'' (Special issue: Queer and now). * * * *

References

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