Buddy Levy

English professor returns to History Channel

Narrative historian and English professor Buddy Levy is making a return to the History Channel. Levy, the author of a 2005 biography about early American adventurer Davy Crockett, is among the experts interviewed in the cable network’s latest documentary series “The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen.” The new series by executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio explores […]

Mind your mullet: Using comedy to help students see their potential

What would you do if your part in a local play entailed wearing an especially unpopular haircut? If you were Ted Tremper, you would embrace not only the role but the mullet, too. Now an award-winning comedy writer, actor, director, and producer living in Los Angeles, Tremper (’04) was a junior majoring in English at […]

‘Radically original’ coach writes about warrior leader

A new book by Cougar football head coach Mike Leach is described as a readable history of Geronimo that also offers practical life and business advice gleaned from the Apache warrior’s leadership approach. “Geronimo: Leadership Strategies of an American Warrior” (Gallery Books; hardcover $26) will go on sale May 6. Leach wrote it with Buddy […]

Warrior Geronimo inspires WSU book collaboration

By Kaylee Ray and Kenny Short, WSU News interns An upcoming book coauthored by Washington State University’s Mike Leach and Buddy Levy about Apache warrior Geronimo will focus on leadership. Levy, a clinical associate professor who teaches English at WSU, said he originally pitched the idea to his agent who also represents Leach, WSU head […]

WSU professor ready to help ‘decode’ pop culture

Television personality, author, and Washington State University clinical associate professor of English Buddy Levy will appear at all three days of Emerald City Comicon, the largest comic book and pop culture convention in the Pacific Northwest. The gathering will be March 1–3, 2013, at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Levy is a co-star […]