Jeet Heer
Canadian writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jeet Heer is a Canadian author, comics critic,[2] literary critic and journalist.[3] He is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine[4] and a former staff writer at The New Republic. 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 Comics Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award.[6] Since May 2022 he has hosted The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer podcast,[7] referring to a famous, if possibly distorted, quotation from Italian radical Antonio Gramsci.[8]
Jeet Heer | |
|---|---|
| Born | India[1] |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Writer |
Heer was born to Indian parents and was raised as a Sikh.[9][10]
Selected works
- Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004)[11]
- A Comics Studies Reader (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008)[12]
- The Superhero Reader (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013)[13][14]
- 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.[15]
- In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013)[16][17][18]
- Sweet Lechery (2014)[19]
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