456B Teacher Education Building 
225 N Mills St
Madison, WI 53706-1707
Office: 608/890-0909
comptonlilly@wisc.edu
Personal Biography
Catherine Compton-Lilly is a Professor Emeritus in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She was an elementary school teacher for 18 years. She has authored/edited eight books including four volumes that follow her former students from grade one through high school. Dr. Compton-Lilly has authored articles in the Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, The Reading Teacher, The Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Written Communication, The Reading Teacher, and Language Arts. Dr. Compton-Lilly engages in longitudinal research projects that last over long periods of time. In her most recent study, she is following nine children in immigrant families as they move through school. Her interests include examining how time operates as a contextual factor in children’s lives as they progress through school and construct their identities as students and readers.