Liane Malinowski, PhD '18, recently published City Housekeeping: Women’s Labor Rhetorics and Spaces for Solidarity, 1886-1911 with Parlor Press. The book is partly based on research from Malinowski's dissertation, Civic Domesticity: Rhetoric, Women and Space at Hull House, 1889-1910, which was the Winner of the CFSHRC's 2018 Presidents Dissertation Award and was an Honorable Mention for the 2018 CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award.
Malinowski was also recently featured on episode 186 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast where she was interviewed about City Housekeeping.
Malinowski is assistant professor of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities where she teaches and researches feminist rhetorics, archival research, and rhetorical history. She is the author of City Housekeeping: Women’s Labor Rhetorics and Spaces for Solidarity, 1886-1911. Her book follows Progressive reformers and garment workers who came together in Chicago’s early women’s labor movement to reimagine work and solidarity by drawing from diverse practices and traditions. It offers the term “labor rhetorics” as a conceptual framework that draws attention to how people communicate about the meaning, value, and conditions of their work across different kinds of spaces and conceptions of time.