TAO LEIGH GOFFE, PhD
Tao Leigh Goffe is a critically-acclaimed writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the UK and New York. Dr. Goffe is an associate professor of literary history and cultural theory at Hunter College, City University of New York. For the past fifteen years she has worked as an academic and has been invited to give keynote lectures in her specialities of colonial histories of race, geology, climate, and media technologies. Dr. Goffe’s debut book DARK LABORATORY is a love letter to islands, exploring the climate crisis as a racial crisis (Doubleday and Hamish Hamilton (Penguin UK), 2025). It has been praised in the New York Times, the Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers’ Weekly, and the Atlantic. She is at work on two new books: BLACK CAPITAL, CHINESE DEBT is under contract with Duke University Press, and MILK: A HISTORY AND A FUTURE in under contract with Doubleday. Her artwork has been featured in solo installations and group exhibitions and was most recently part of the Ninth Asian Art Biennial.
Dr. Goffe participating in panel on race and coloniality at the National Archive. January 24 and 25, 2020, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
On Hulu, journey through time with professor and DJ Tao Leigh Goffe as she uncovers her story at the intersection of Black and Chinese culture in this #Initiative29 episode.
Dr. Goffe participating in AAPI Digital Humanities panel at the Library of Congress. July 18, 2023, Washington DC.
