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!
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. (016). "Liberal Human 'Rights' Discourse and Sexual Citizenship." In Alexander, Jonathan; Rhodes, Jacqueline (eds.) Sexual Rhetorics. Routledge, 2016.
Malinowitz, Harriet (2008). "The Writer-passion of a Feminist Dilettante". In Siebler, Kay (ed.). Composing Feminism(s). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Malinowitz, Harriet (1998). "A Feminist Critique of Writing in the Disciplines". In Jarratt, Susan; Worsham, Lynn (eds.). 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. (eds.). The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty First Century. New York: Feminist Press.
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. JSTOR378899.
Malinowitz, Harriet (1996). "David and Me". JAC. 16 (1): 209–223.
↑Malinowitz, Harriet (1995). Textual Orientations: Lesbian and Gay Students and the Making of Discourse Communities. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers: Heinemann.
↑Haggerty, George; Zimmerman, Bonnie (2000). Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories. New York: Garland. p.XXXV.