Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is an Indian-Canadian author, comics critic,[1] literary critic and journalist.[2] He is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine[3] and a former staff writer at The New Republic. As of 2014, he was writing a doctoral thesis at York University in Toronto.[4] The publications he has written for include The National Post, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Heer was a member of the 2016 jury for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.[5] His anthology A Comic Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award.[6]

Heer was born to Indian parents and he was raised as a Sikh.[7][8]

Selected works
  • Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004)[9]
  • A Comics Studies Reader (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008)[10]
  • The Superhero Reader (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013)[11][12]
  • Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education (with Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour, eds. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012.[13]
  • In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013)[14][15][16]
  • Sweet Lechery (2014)[17]

References
  1. "A Conversation with Jeet Heer | The Comics Journal". www.tcj.com. 13 October 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  2. "Jeet Heer". The New Republic. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  3. Room, Press (2019-06-18). "New 'Nation' Editor D.D. Guttenplan Names Jeet Heer National-Affairs Correspondent and Jane McAlevey Strikes Correspondent". The Nation. ISSN 0027-8378. Archived from the original on 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2019-07-10.
  4. "Host: Jeet Heer". Alberta, Calgary, Canada: Calgary Wordfest. 2014. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  5. "2016 Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017.
  6. "Rollins Book Award". Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  7. "Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent". American Kahani. 22 May 2022. Indo-Canadian journalist and author Jeet Here has rejoined The Nation, a magazine of progressive politics, culture, and opinion ...
  8. @heerjeet (March 18, 2017). "I was raised a Sikh ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. Berlatsky, Eric L. "Review of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium)". Archived from the original on 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
  10. Baetens, Jan. "Review of A Comic Studies Reader". Archived from the original on 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  11. Berlatsky, Eric L. "Review of A Superhero Reader". Archived from the original on 2019-02-16. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  12. Koch, Robert T. (April 1, 2014). "The Superhero Reader Charles Hatfield Jeet Heer Kent Worcester". Studies in Popular Culture. 36 (2): 177–79.
  13. Dillabough, J.-A. (2014) ‘Jeet Heer, Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour, eds., Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education’, Labour/Le Travail, (74), p. 358-362
  14. "Jeet Heer Archives – The Paris Review". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  15. Acheson, Charles. "Review of Jeet Heer's In Love with Art". www.english.ufl.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-04-21. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  16. "Committed: In Love with Art - Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer". CBR. 2013-12-18. Archived from the original on 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  17. HINGSTON, MICHAEL; Heer, Jeet (2015). "Sweet Lechery shows us why Jeet Heer became one of Canada's leading public intellectuals". Archived from the original on 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
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