His articles can be found in The National Post, The Boston Globe, The Literary Review of Canada, and several other publications. He is the co-editor, along with Kent Worcester, of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (2004). The winner of a Fulbright Fellowship (2000-2001) and the Thomas Inge Award (2002), Heer is currently pursuing his doctorate at York University, writing his thesis on "the cultural politics of Little Orphan Annie."