Tao Leigh Goffe

Tao Leigh Goffe is Associate Professor of literary theory and cultural history with a focus on the environmental humanities and geology at Hunter College, City University of New York. She joined the department of Department of Africana Studies after over a decade of research and teaching on Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. This work builds on a long-standing research interest in the intersection of art, climate, race, and digital technologies. It is the basis of the Dark Laboratory, which she founded and leads as the Executive Director. Dr. Goffe graduated with an undergraduate degree in English literature at Princeton University before earning a PhD at Yale University. Dr. Goffe’s forthcoming book Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, The Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis [Doubleday, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books UK)], explores how 1492 was the genesis of the climate crisis. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the Boys Club of New York.