Rachel Roeder

Date of Award

2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Zhang, Jing

Second Advisor

Bailey, Thomas

Area of Concentration

Creative Writing, Humanities with History

Abstract

The Art of Being Hidden is the Thesis project of Rachel Roeder in pursuit of her dual major in Creative Writing and Humanities. The project is a collection of short stories written over the course of the last two years. The aim of this project is to show the potential of Rachel’s writing as well as show what they have learned during their time as a student at New College of Florida. The stories included here are not necessarily in their finished forms, however they reflect where Rachel’s work is at the end of her four years of study. There are a total of 5 works in this collection: Little Black Dress, a mother-daughter exploration of identity; Wealthy House Rules, a meditation on Florida’s elite; What Are You Doing Here?, an introspection of a complicated relationship with faith; Graven Images, a piece about finding God in strange places; and Overlooked, a fable-esque look into invisible disability. Though each follows different characters and plots, all of them share similar themes of isolation, otherness, and outside perception. Together, they are meant to offer a varied and thought-provoking look into what it means to be simultaneously seen and unseen.

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