Daniel Sacilotto is a fifth-year comparative literature PhD student at UCLA.

Sacilotto was born in Virginia and moved to Lima, Peru when he was six months old. He attended Markham College. During his high school years, Sacilotto published two plays and a poetry collection. He moved to the United States to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where he majored in Philosophy.

He is currently an instructor at the UCLA Comparative Literature Department.

Sacilotto's literary research focuses on the reconciliation of rationalism with materialism, and the pursuit of a revisionary naturalism through the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Alain Badiou, Jay Rosenberg, and Ray Brassier. He is currently revising a full-length monograph tentatively titled Saving the Noumenon: An Essay on the Foundations of Ontology, in which he develops the idea that a materialist metaphysics requires the rehabilitation of a new transcendental epistemology, which depurates the traditional Kantian account from its metaphysical envelopment.