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Writer
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. 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.[4] His anthology A Comics Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Book Award.[5] Since May 2022, he has hosted The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer podcast,[6] referring to a famous, if possibly distorted, quotation from Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci.[7]
Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.[8][9]
Selected works
- Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Missisippi, 2004. Template:ISBN (edited with Kent Worcester)[10]
- A Comics Studies Reader. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. Template:ISBN(edited with Kent Worcester)[11]
- The Superhero Reader. Jackson, Miss.: University of Mississippi Press, 2014. Template:ISBN (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield)[12][13]
- Too Asian?: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012 Template:ISBN(edited with Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour)[14]
- In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman. Ontario: Chapter House Books, 2013 Template:ISBN[15][16][17]
- Sweet Lechery. Ontario: The Porcupine's Quill, 2014. Template:ISBN[18]
References
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- ↑ 2016 Jury. Scotiabank Giller Prize. Retrieved April 1, 2026.
- ↑ Rollins Book Award. Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
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- ↑ Antonio Gramsci. Wikiquote. Retrieved 2025-01-12.Template:Better source needed
- ↑ Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent. American Kahani(May 22, 2022). Retrieved April 1, 2026.
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- ↑ Review of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies({Template:Date).
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- ↑ Review of The Superhero Reader. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies({Template:Date).
- ↑ Hatfield, Charles, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester, eds. The Superhero Reader. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2013. 319 pages; index.. Studies in Popular Culture({Template:Date).
- ↑ 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). Labour/Le Travail({Template:Date).
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- ↑ Review of Jeet Heer's In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies({Template:Date).
- ↑ Committed: In Love with Art - Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer, Harris, Sonia. Comic Book Resources(December 18, 2013). Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- ↑ Sweet Lechery shows us why Jeet Heer became one of Canada's leading public intellectuals. The Globe and Mail(January 9, 2015). Retrieved June 13, 2017.