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Donato Loia is a PhD Candidate in Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Texas at Austin and the 2019-2020 Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellow at the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas. His work has appeared in Visual Studies, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Mise-en-Scène: The Journal of Film and Visual Narration, among other places. His dissertation, titled "Beyond the Light: Visual Studies on the Presence of the Sacred in the Absence of God,” brings together themes of art, religiosity, and secularity in the twenty-first century.
