Stephanie Rico

Stephanie Rico is a Chicana scholar, educator, and PhD Candidate in the department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, interested in photographing and archiving moments of conviviendo, the Spanish word meaning to live together. Her Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council–funded research in the public humanities involves working with the Pedagogies of Hope Collective and the Hamilton LGBTQ2S+ Community Archive. She is also the co-creator and co-editor of Junq, an independent literary magazine based in Hamilton, Ontario. Her doctoral research explores the ways conviviendo opens us towards an alternate ordering and storying of life on the borderlands, one where our desires propel us towards hopes and futures of love and coexistence rather than violence and estrangement.