Caroline Grand

Caroline Grand is a first-year Ph.D. student in the English Department at Northeastern University and a Research Fellow at the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science. She is affiliated with the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Her research interests focus on early modern English funerary practices, Shakespearean classical traditions, feminist ecocriticism, and the socio-legal dimensions of death rituals. She holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Trinity University.

Caroline’s work explores how death-related superstitions and taboos shape cultural understandings of grief, memory, and embodiment. She advocates for global legalization of human composting as an eco-conscious burial alternative. Her current role at the NULab integrates computational methods with humanities research, reflecting her interdisciplinary approach to literature and social science.

No academic articles or awards are listed in the provided text, but her research trajectory suggests emerging contributions to early modern studies and environmental humanities. She is supervised by faculty in the English Department, though specific grants or lab affiliations are not detailed here.