Jeet Heer is a
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source o ...
author, comics critic, literary critic and journalist. He is a national affairs correspondent for ''
The Nation'' magazine and a former staff writer at ''
The New Republic''. As of 2014, he was writing a doctoral thesis at
York University in Toronto. 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
The Giller Prize (sponsored as the Scotiabank Giller Prize), is a literary award given to a Canadian author of a novel or short story collection published in English (including translation) the previous year, after an annual juried competition b ...
. His anthology ''A Comic Studies Reader'', with
Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award.
Selected works
* ''Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium'' (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004)
* ''A Comics Studies Reader'' (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008)
* ''The Superhero Reader'' (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013)
* ''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.
* ''In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman'' (2013)
* ''Sweet Lechery'' (2014)
References
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Canadian literary critics
Comics critics
Living people
The New Republic people
Year of birth missing (living people)
York University alumni
Canadian writers of Asian descent
Canadian people of Indian descent
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