Eric Leatherwood began teaching for PRCC in the fall of 1995.  He has taught Developmental and Composition classes and is currently a co-sponsor of the Student chapter of Mississippi Association of Educators.

Originally hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, Eric spent most of his childhood in the Dallas, Texas area.  He attended First Baptist Academy in downtown Dallas where he was a member of the marching band and the baseball team.  After high school, he began his undergraduate degree at Houston Baptist University and received a double major in English and Psychology.  After graduation, Eric had a one year stint teaching sophomore English at Alief High School in Houston, Texas.  In 1993, he left HISD to pursue a Master's degree in English at Sam Houston State University. 

Upon completion of his M. A., Eric moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi to work on a Ph. D. in American Literature before 1900 at the University of Southern Mississippi.  His emphasis is on Mark Twain and Southwestern humor writings.  He is currently working on his dissertation.

When Eric is not teaching, he loves to fish, hunt, mountain bike, camp, hike, spelunk, or engage in most any sporting event that is in season, especially softball, basketball, tennis, and tidily-winks.  Often his outdoor excursions lead to hyperbolic Southern epics which are set in parts unknown.  These unspecific locales, along with Eric's uncanny lack of navigational instinct, usually lead to narrow brushes with mortality and a more than casual acquaintance with most major search and rescue teams located in the Southeast.

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