Tao Leigh Goffe is a writer and a DJ specializing in the narratives that emerge from histories of race, debt, ecology, and technology. She studied English at  Princeton University before pursuing a PhD from Yale University.

Dr. Goffe is an assistant professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University.  Her research is rooted in decolonial thought, literature, and theories of labor that center Black feminism’s engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations.

Dr. Goffe is the founder the Dark Laboratory, an engine for the crossroads of race, technology, and ecology through virtual reality (XR)  storytelling.   Dr. Goffe is also the Executive Director of the Afro-Asia Group, an advisory organization with the mission of designing and theorizing African and Asian diasporas, futurity, solidarity, and  infrastructure.

Her interdisciplinary research and practice examines the unfolding relationship between imperialism and archives. DJ’ing is an important part of her pedagogy and research. Film production, sound design, digital cartography, and oral history are also integral to her praxis.