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. As of 2014, he was writing a doctoral thesis at York University in Toronto.^{[ needs update] [5]} 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. ^[6] His anthology A Comic Studies Reader, with Kent Worcester, won the 2010 Rollins Award. ^[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 (edited with Kent Worcester) (2004) ^[10]
• A Comics Studies Reader (edited with Kent Worcester) (2008) ^[11]
• The Superhero Reader (edited with Kent Worcester and Charles Hatfield) (2013) ^{[12] [13]}
• 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. ^[14]
• In Love with Art: Françoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman (2013) ^{[15] [16] [17]}
• Sweet Lechery (2014) ^[18]

References

External links

• Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived January 26, 2016)
• Jeet Heer on Twitter

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