{"640767":{"#nid":"640767","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Remembering Dr. Darcy Mullen","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe campus and College community suffered a difficult loss the weekend of October 24 with the death of Dr. Darcy Mullen, a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mullen was a member of the faculty in the Writing and Communication Program in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. She was a kind and passionate instructor who cared deeply for her students. Her interests and expertise focused on aesthetics and poetics, contemporary literature, ecocriticism, and especially, the rhetoric of food. A proponent of food justice, her doctoral dissertation was titled \u0026ldquo;There\u0026rsquo;s No Place Like Home: Locavore Writing and Rhetorics of Space.\u0026rdquo; Many of her classes at Georgia Tech engaged with issues of food in Atlanta, and she often connected her students to food and agriculture-oriented community partners via service learning, and particularly those related to the presentation and delivery of food.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn a message to the College about Dr. Mullen\u0026rsquo;s passing, Dean Kaye Husbands Fealing said, \u0026ldquo;The loss of a colleague is inherently challenging and can be especially difficult in times of heightened isolation. Our thoughts are with Darcy\u0026rsquo;s family, friends, students, and colleagues.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDean Husbands Fealing noted that staff and faculty may find support through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hwb.gatech.edu\/eap\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/hwb.gatech.edu\/eap\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ehwb.gatech.edu\/eap\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.valueoptions.com\/referralconnect\/doLogin.do?e=Z2FjbSAg\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/www.valueoptions.com\/referralconnect\/doLogin.do?e=Z2FjbSAg\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Georgia Crisis and Access Line\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (1-800-715-4225) is also staffed with professional social workers and counselors 24 hours per day, every day, to\u202fassist those with urgent and emergency needs.\u202f\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Mullen\u0026rsquo;s obituary may be found here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.davisstruempf.com\/obituaries\/Darcy-Mullen\/#!\/Obituary\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.davisstruempf.com\/obituaries\/Darcy-Mullen\/#!\/Obituary\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; Her family has indicated that gifts in her memory may be donated to the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/engage.acfb.org\/site\/Donation2?df_id=8747\u0026amp;8747.donation=form1\u0026amp;_ga=2.209021521.2124386521.1603889135-2039279941.1603889135\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022 title=\u0022https:\/\/engage.acfb.org\/site\/Donation2?df_id=8747\u0026amp;8747.donation=form1\u0026amp;_ga=2.209021521.2124386521.1603889135-2039279941.1603889135\u0022\u003EAtlanta Community Food Bank\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe campus and College community suffered a difficult loss the weekend of October 24 with the death of Dr. Darcy Mullen, a Marion L. 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