Kia Jane Richmond

Associate Professor
B.A., English and Psychology, Texas Christian Univ
M.A., English, Texas A&M University-Commerce
Ph.D., Composition and Pedagogy, Illinois
State University
krichmon@nmu.edu

Teaching Specialties

• Composition Studies
• English Education
• Psychology and Writing

Kia Jane Richmond is in her eighth year as an English department faculty member. She earned her Ph.D. in English Studies (composition studies and pedagogy) at Illinois State University in 2001. While a longtime resident of Texas, Kia earned an M.A. in English (1997), a B.A. in English and Psychology (1986), and two teaching certifications (Texas Lifetime Certificate in Secondary English and Psychology, 1989; National Board Certificate in Early Adolescence/English Language Arts, 1995). 

Kia is the co-director of the English Education program at NMU. In addition to teaching courses to prepare future secondary teachers of English/Language Arts, she serves as a university supervisor for English Ed students and, in that capacity, visits student teachers at middle/high schools across the Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin. Kia also teaches courses in writing, young adult literature, and the humanities. 

In December 2006, Kia was presented with NMU’s Excellence in Professional Development Award. 

Kia’s professional development activities include publishing (her articles have appeared in English Education, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Language Arts Journal of Michigan, Composition Studies, Issues in Writing, and The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning) and presenting at conferences sponsored by NCTE, CCCC, CEE, and MCTE. Kia has co-chaired the CEE Commission on English Methods since 2004, and she was one of only a hundred national leaders invited to participate in the Conference on English Education's Leadership and Policy Summits in 2005 and 2007.

Kia and her husband, David Neumann, have two tuxedo kittens and one Pembroke Welsh Corgi dog. Since moving to the Upper Peninsula, Kia and David have enjoyed downhill skiing at Marquette Mountain, vacationing in Wisconsin, and searching for authentic Tex-Mex anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon Line.