Catherine Compton-Lilly is the John C. Hungerpiller Professor at the University of South Carolina. As a professor in the College of Education, Compton-Lilly teaches courses in literacy studies, elementary educations and works with local educators. Among the books she has edited or authored are: Whitewashed Critical Perspectives: Restoring the Edge to Edgy Ideas in Literacy Education (co-edited with Lewis Ellison, Perry, & Smagorinsky) and Making Sense of Literacy Scholarship: Approaches to Synthesizing Literacy Research (co-authored with Rogers & Lewis Ellison). She has a forthcoming book entitled Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate, which she co-authored with a team of doctoral students. She is also the author of a series of texts dedicated to a ten-year longitudinal research project: Reading Families: The Literate Lives of Urban Children (2003), Rereading Families (2007), Reading Time: The literate lives of urban secondary students and their families (2012), and Reading students’ lives: Literacy learning across time (2016). In these books, she describes her experiences in following eight of her former first grade students through high school. Compton-Lilly has authored articles in several major educational journals including the Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Written Communication, Urban Education, Journal of Literacy Research and Language Arts.Catherine Compton-Lilly engages in longitudinal research projects that last over long periods of time. 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. In an ongoing study, now in its thirteenth year, Compton-Lilly is working with a team of graduate students to follow children from immigrant families from primary school through high school. Compton-Lilly is recognized in two honorary books as part of the Garn Press Women Scholars Series: Diversity Research in Action and Time in Education: Intertwined Dimensions and Theoretical Possibilities. In 2020, Compton-Lilly served as an Honorary Chair Professor at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Compton-Lilly holds emerita status at the University of Wisconsin Madison.