About Kent Richmond
Before his retirement in 2008, Kent Richmond taught composition, critical thinking, and linguistics for the English Department and American Language Program. He is interested in adult second language acquisition and the role that vocabulary learning plays in that process. His latest book Inside Reading 4 (Oxford University Press) won the 2008 David E. Eskey award from the California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL). He is the coauthor of Interface: Academic English in Context.
Kent spends his spare time writing verse translations of Shakespeare plays in contemporary English, so far completing translations of Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, and Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet was recently performed at a high school in Ohio.
He received his BA from CSULB in 1975 and his MA in 1977. The Lakewood resident joined the university in 1979 after a teaching stint in Taiwan. In January 2007, his wife Lynne, after many years at CSU Fullerton, joined the CSULB family as director of the American Language Institute. Two of his sons are studying at CSULB. Nate is working on his MS in biochemistry, and Luke is in Film and Electronic Arts.
Kent is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the National Council of Teachers of English, TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), and CATESOL (California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages).
The magazine Inside CSULB featured Kent as the author of the month in April, 2008.