Members of The Decameron Project

Megan Mills

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Megan Mills is 21 year old currently a Junior at the University of Pittsburgh pursuing a Major in Communications and a minor in Computer Science. For this project she went through the stories to tag all the peoples names and created the graph of different places in different days. She also made the members page for the website.



Jessica Milewski

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Jessica Milewski is a 22 year old graduating senior at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. She is majoring in Psychology with a clinical/counseling focus and minoring in English Literature. She enjoys reading, drawing, and writing in her free time and plans to earn a master's degree in Social Work. Jessica created the CSS for this website, the network graph of places related to Florence, and marked up the nested narratives found throughout the text as well as the places mentioned in the text.



Lauren McGuigan

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Lauren McGuigan is a 20 year old Communications major with a focus in Media Studies and a minor in Theatre at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. She is currently pursuing a Digital Media Certificate, and hopes to one day work in Entertainment Marketing. Lauren worked as a web developer for the Decameron project and used XSLT to transform the XML markup to HTML. She also created the Box Model that interprets the structure of the narrative.



Matthew Burch

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Matthew Burch is going on his second year of college at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. He intends on finishing a degree in both English Literature and Professional Writing, while also completeing a minor in Theater and a Digital Studies Certificate. Matt created the map based on places mentioned in The Decameron. This is his first year of coding and will be returning next semester to continue working on the Decameron Project.

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