Faculty
662.329.8507
Email: erichard@msms.k12.ms.us
Homepage: http://www2.msms.k12.ms.us/~erichard/
Classes Taught:
University English II
British Literature
Creative Writing I and II
Southern Writers
Education and Certifications:
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. National Board Certification in Adolescence and Young Adulthood/English Language Arts. 2000; renewed 2010. States of Mississippi and North Carolina. Certification in English and Reading.
Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC. Thirty (30) semester hours of graduate study beyond the master’s degree for Advanced Certification in English. Completed 1984.
Duke University, Durham, NC. M.A. in English. Graduated 1975.
St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC. B.A. (High Honors) in English. Graduated May 1974. Attended St. Andrews University, Scotland, 1972-73.
Honors/Awards:
Outstanding Teacher Award, 2007. The University of Chicago (“Awarded to Outstanding and Inspiring High School Teachers on the Recommendation of University of Chicago Students.”).
Mississippi Hall of Master Teachers, 1999. Mississippi University for Women.
Most Influential Educator, 1998. The University of Mississippi (named by MSMS graduate, Keyana Mitchell, Carrier Scholar, University of Mississippi).
Continuing Education Grant (for research in the Special Collections of Southern Literature at Wilson Library, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 1998. National Bank of Commerce, Columbus, MS.
Continuing Education Grant (for a study of the works by Mississippi writer, Larry Brown), 1994. National Bank of Commerce, Columbus, MS.
Regional Finalist, Mississippi Teacher of the Year, 1993. Mississippi Economic Council.
Independent Study in the Humanities Grant (for a study of contemporary Mississippi and North Carolina writers entitled “Searching for Voices of the Dispossessed,” 1993. Council for Basic Education/National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
South Central Bell Grant (for students to produce videotaped interviews with three Mississippi writers), 1993.
Mississippi STAR Teacher/“All-STAR Teacher” (selected by MSMS student, Mark Rogers, 1991; selected by MSMS student, Kathy Patterson, 1990). Mississippi Economic Council.
Outstanding Teacher Award, 1991.The University of Chicago (“Awarded to Outstanding and Inspiring High School Teachers on the Recommendation of University of Chicago Students.”).
Fellow, National Humanities Center, Summer Institute (for a study of “The Concept of Self in Literature"; one of twenty English teachers from North Carolina selected to participate), 1986. National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, North Carolina.
St. Andrews Society of North Carolina Fellowship (for independent study in Dublin, Ireland, to develop a reading-readiness parent program, Home Start), 1976-1977.
North Carolina Teacher’s Scholarship, 1975; Duke University.