Jeet_Heer

Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer

Canadian writer

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. As of 2014, he was writing a doctoral thesis at York University in Toronto.[needs update][5] 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.[6] His anthology A Comic Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award.[7]

Quick Facts Born, Nationality ...

Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.[8][9]

Selected works

  • Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004)[10]
  • A Comics Studies Reader (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008)[11]
  • The Superhero Reader (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013)[12][13]
  • 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.[14]
  • In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013)[15][16][17]
  • Sweet Lechery (2014)[18]

References

  1. [1]
    https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1705336495492469195
  2. [2]
    "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.
  3. [3]
    "Jeet Heer". The New Republic. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    "Host: Jeet Heer". Alberta, Calgary, Canada: Calgary Wordfest. 2014. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  6. [6]
    "2016 Jury". Scotiabank Giller Prize. Archived from the original on May 27, 2017.
  7. [7]
    "Rollins Book Award". Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  8. [8]
    "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 ...
  9. [9]
    @heerjeet (March 18, 2017). "I was raised a Sikh ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. [10]
    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.
  11. [11]
    Baetens, Jan. "Review of A Comic Studies Reader". Archived from the original on 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  12. [12]
    Berlatsky, Eric L. "Review of A Superhero Reader". Archived from the original on 2019-02-16. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  13. [13]
    Koch, Robert T. (April 1, 2014). "The Superhero Reader Charles Hatfield Jeet Heer Kent Worcester". Studies in Popular Culture. 36 (2): 177–79.
  14. [14]
    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
  15. [15]
    "Jeet Heer Archives – The Paris Review". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  16. [16]
    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.
  17. [17]
    "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.
  18. [18]
    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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