Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer
Born
India[1]
NationalityCanadian
OccupationWriter

Jeet Heer is a Canadian author, comics critic,[2] literary critic and journalist.[3] He is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine[4] and a former staff writer at The New Republic. 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 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. ^ @HeerJeet. "Tweet from September 22, 2023". Twitter. Retrieved October 10, 2024.
  2. ^ "A Conversation with Jeet Heer | The Comics Journal". www.tcj.com. October 13, 2014. Archived from the original on April 20, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  3. ^ "Jeet Heer". The New Republic. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  4. ^ Room, Press (June 18, 2019). "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 July 10, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  5. ^ "2016 Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017.
  6. ^ "Rollins Book Award". Archived from the original on February 12, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  7. ^ "Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent". American Kahani. May 22, 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 January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2019.
  10. ^ Baetens, Jan. "Review of A Comic Studies Reader". Archived from the original on April 10, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  11. ^ Berlatsky, Eric L. "Review of A Superhero Reader". Archived from the original on February 16, 2019. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  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 December 24, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  15. ^ Acheson, Charles. "Review of Jeet Heer's In Love with Art". www.english.ufl.edu. Archived from the original on April 21, 2018. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  16. ^ "Committed: In Love with Art - Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer". CBR. December 18, 2013. Archived from the original on June 10, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  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 May 11, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.


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