Tao Leigh Goffe

Tao Leigh Goffe is an award-winning writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the UK and New York City. She produces videos, sound sculptures and installations that foreground digital tools as a way of navigating the crosscurrents of the Black Pacific and Chinese Atlantic by creating sonic kinship. For the past fifteen years she has worked as an academic and has been invited to give keynote lectures in her specialties of colonial histories of race, geology, climate, and media technologies. Dr. Goffe lives and works in Manhattan where she is an Associate Professor at Hunter College, CUNY. She teaches classes on literary theory and cultural history. Dr. Goffe’s book on how the climate crisis is a racial crisis is called DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday and Hamish Hamilton (Penguin UK, 2025)).