Jeet Heer

Jeet Heer is a 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]

Works (selection)
  • Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004)[7]
  • A Comics Studies Reader (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008)[8]
  • The Superhero Reader (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013)[9]
  • In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013)[10][11][12]
  • Sweet Lechery (2014)[13]

References
  1. "A Conversation with Jeet Heer | The Comics Journal". www.tcj.com. 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. 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". Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  7. Berlatsky, Eric L. "Review of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium)". Retrieved 2019-01-26.
  8. Baetens, Jan. "Review of A Comic Studies Reader". Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  9. Berlatsky, Eric L. "Review of A Superhero Reader". Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  10. "Jeet Heer Archives – The Paris Review". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  11. Acheson, Charles. "Review of Jeet Heer's In Love with Art". www.english.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  12. "Committed: In Love with Art - Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer". CBR. 2013-12-18. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  13. HINGSTON, MICHAEL; Heer, Jeet (2015). "Sweet Lechery shows us why Jeet Heer became one of Canada's leading public intellectuals". Retrieved 2017-06-13.


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