Jeet Heer is a

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author, comics critic, literary critic and journalist. He is a national affairs correspondent for ''

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'' magazine and a former staff writer at ''

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''. As of 2014, he was writing a doctoral thesis at

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in Toronto. The publications he has written for include ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Phil ...

'', and ''

Virginia Quarterly Review The ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. This ''"National Journal of Literature and Discussion" ...

''. Heer was a member of the 2016 jury for the

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. 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)

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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 {{Canada-writer-stub