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Jeet Heer is an Indian-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.[needs update][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]

Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.[7][8]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ "A Conversation with Jeet Heer | The Comics Journal". www.tcj.com. 13 October 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-04-20. 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. Archived from the original on 2019-07-10. 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". Archived from the original on 2019-02-12. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  7. ^ "Journalist and Author Jeet Heer Rejoins The Nation as National Affairs Correspondent". American Kahani. 22 May 2022. Indo-Canadian journalist and author Jeet Here has rejoined The Nation, a magazine of progressive politics, culture, and opinion ...
  8. ^ @heerjeet (March 18, 2017). "I was raised a Sikh ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  9. ^ Berlatsky, Eric L. "Review of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium)". Archived from the original on 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
  10. ^ Baetens, Jan. "Review of A Comic Studies Reader". Archived from the original on 2018-04-10. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  11. ^ Berlatsky, Eric L. "Review of A Superhero Reader". Archived from the original on 2019-02-16. Retrieved 2019-01-27.
  12. ^ Koch, Robert T. (April 1, 2014). "The Superhero Reader Charles Hatfield Jeet Heer Kent Worcester". Studies in Popular Culture. 36 (2): 177–79.
  13. ^ Dillabough, J.-A. (2014) ‘Jeet Heer, Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour, eds., Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education’, Labour/Le Travail, (74), p. 358-362
  14. ^ "Jeet Heer Archives – The Paris Review". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 2016-12-24. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  15. ^ Acheson, Charles. "Review of Jeet Heer's In Love with Art". www.english.ufl.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-04-21. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  16. ^ "Committed: In Love with Art - Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman by Jeet Heer". CBR. 2013-12-18. Archived from the original on 2021-06-10. Retrieved 2017-06-13.
  17. ^ HINGSTON, MICHAEL; Heer, Jeet (2015). "Sweet Lechery shows us why Jeet Heer became one of Canada's leading public intellectuals". Archived from the original on 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2017-06-13.

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