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'''Jeet Heer''' is a Canadian author, [[comics critic]],<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Dueben |first=Alex |date=October 13, 2014 |title=A Conversation with Jeet Heer |url=http://www.tcj.com/a-conversation-with-jeet-heer/ |magazine=[[The Comics Journal]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420212054/http://www.tcj.com/a-conversation-with-jeet-heer/ |archive-date=April 20, 2017 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref> literary critic and journalist.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Jeet Heer |url=https://newrepublic.com/authors/jeet-heer |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315013127/https://newrepublic.com/authors/jeet-heer |archive-date=March 15, 2017 |access-date=May 27, 2017}}<!--Non-archivable at Webcitation or Archive.is--></ref> He is a national affairs correspondent for ''[[The Nation]]'' magazine<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 18, 2019 |title=New 'Nation' Editor D.D. Guttenplan Names Jeet Heer National-Affairs Correspondent and Jane McAlevey Strikes Correspondent |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/guttenplan-jeet-heer-jane-mcalevey/ |department=Press Room |magazine=[[The Nation]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710175742/https://www.thenation.com/article/guttenplan-jeet-heer-jane-mcalevey/ |archive-date=July 10, 2019 |access-date=July 10, 2019}}</ref> and a former staff writer at ''[[The New Republic]]''. Other publications for which he has written include the ''[[National Post]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[The Paris Review]]'', and the ''[[Virginia Quarterly Review]]''. Heer was a member of the 2016 jury for the [[Scotiabank Giller Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2016 Jury |url=http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/2016jury/ |publisher=[[Scotiabank Giller Prize]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170527180738/http://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/2016jury/ |archive-date=May 27, 2017 |access-date=April 1, 2026}}</ref> His anthology ''A Comics Studies Reader'', with [[Kent Worcester]], won the 2010 Rollins Book Award.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rollins Book Award |url=http://southwestpca.org/conference/rollins-book-award/ |publisher=Southwest Popular/American Culture Association |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212025523/http://southwestpca.org/conference/rollins-book-award/ |archive-date=February 12, 2019 |access-date=January 27, 2019}}</ref> Since May 2022, he has hosted ''The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer'' podcast,<ref>{{cite magazine |date=2022-05-18 |title=Jeet Heer Departs Substack for ''The Nation'' |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeet-heer-nation-podcast/ |department=Press Room |magazine=[[The Nation]] |access-date=2025-01-12}}</ref> referring to a famous, if possibly distorted, quotation from Italian Marxist [[Antonio Gramsci]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Antonio Gramsci |url=https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci |website=[[Wikiquote]] |access-date=2025-01-12}}{{Better source needed|date=April 2026}}</ref><br />
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Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a [[Sikhism|Sikh]].<ref>{{cite web |date=May 22, 2022 |title=Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent |url=https://americankahani.com/politics/jeet-heer-rejoins-the-nation-as-national-affairs-correspondent/ |website=American Kahani |access-date=April 1, 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet |last=Heer |first=Jeet |user=HeerJeet |number=842932578969518080 |date=March 18, 2017 |title=11. I was raised a Sikh & our temples have a duty to provide food to all who enter, not just other Sikhs. Erickson's Jesus inferior to that |access-date=April 1, 2026}}</ref><br />
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==Selected works==<br />
* ''Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium''. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Missisippi, 2004. {{ISBN|1578066867}} (edited with Kent Worcester)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Berlatsky |first=Eric L. |date=2012 |title=Review of ''Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium'' |url=http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v6_2/berlatsky1 |journal=ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies |volume=6 |issue=2 |issn=1549-6732 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128135743/http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v6_2/berlatsky1/ |archive-date=January 28, 2019 |access-date=January 26, 2019}}</ref><br />
* ''A Comics Studies Reader''. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. {{ISBN|978-1604731095}}(edited with Kent Worcester)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Baetens |first=Jan |author-link=Jan Baetens |date=2009 |title=A Comics Studies Reader |url=http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/216 |journal=Image & Narrative |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=240–241 |issn=1780-678X |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180410152852/http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/216 |archive-date=April 10, 2018 |access-date=January 27, 2019}}</ref><br />
* ''The Superhero Reader''. Jackson, Miss.: University of Mississippi Press, 2014. {{ISBN|1-61703-806-7}} (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Berlatsky|first=Eric L. |date=2015 |title=Review of ''The Superhero Reader'' |url=http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v8_2/berlatsky/ |journal=ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies |volume=8 |issue=2 |issn=1549-6732 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216022028/http://imagetext.english.ufl.edu/archives/v8_2/berlatsky/ |archive-date=February 16, 2019 |access-date=January 27, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Koch |first=Robert T. Jr |date=Spring 2014 |title=Hatfield, Charles, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester, eds. ''The Superhero Reader''. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2013. 319 pages; index. |journal=Studies in Popular Culture |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=177–179 |issn=0888-5753 |jstor=24332658}}</ref> <br />
* ''Too Asian?: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education''. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012 {{ISBN|978-1926662787}}(edited with Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour)<ref>{{cite journal |last=Dillabough |first=Jo-Anne |date=Fall 2014 |title=Jeet Heer, Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour, eds., ''Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education'' (Toronto: Between the Lines 2012) |journal=[[Labour/Le Travail]] |volume=74 |pages=358-361 |jstor=24244205}}</ref><br />
* ''In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman''. Ontario: Chapter House Books, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1770563506}}<ref>{{cite magazine |date=January 10, 2014 |title=What We're Loving: Mouly, Minneapolis, Marié |url=http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/01/10/what-were-loving-francoise-mouly-the-minneapolis-sound-lucile-ltd-s-autumn-1905-collection |magazine=[[The Paris Review]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114164927/http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/01/10/what-were-loving-francoise-mouly-the-minneapolis-sound-lucile-ltd-s-autumn-1905-collection |archive-date=January 14, 2014 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Acheson |first=Charles |date=2014 |title=Review of Jeet Heer's ''In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman'' |url=http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v7_4/acheson/ |journal=ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies |volume=7 |issue=4 |issn=1549-6732 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421173308/http://www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v7_4/acheson/ |archive-date=April 21, 2018 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Harris |first=Sonia |date=December 18, 2013 |title=Committed: In Love with Art - Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer |url=http://www.cbr.com/committed-in-love-with-art-francoise-moulys-adventures-in-comics-with-art-spiegelman-by-jeet-heer/ |website=[[Comic Book Resources]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610174551/https://www.cbr.com/committed-in-love-with-art-francoise-moulys-adventures-in-comics-with-art-spiegelman-by-jeet-heer/ |archive-date=June 10, 2021 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref><br />
* ''Sweet Lechery''. Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0889843783}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Hingston |first=Michael |date=January 9, 2015 |title=Sweet Lechery shows us why Jeet Heer became one of Canada's leading public intellectuals |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/sweet-lechery-shows-us-how-jeet-heer-used-twitter-to-become-one-of-canadas-leading-public-intellectuals/article22380667/ |newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511130947/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/sweet-lechery-shows-us-how-jeet-heer-used-twitter-to-become-one-of-canadas-leading-public-intellectuals/article22380667/ |archive-date=May 11, 2017 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref><br />
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* {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126213154/http://jeetheer.com/|title=Official website|date=January 26, 2016}}<br />
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* [https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/ ''The Time of Monsters''] podcast<br />
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