The Space welcomes writer, professor, and interdisciplinary media artist Tao Leigh Goffe as a Research Affiliate!

Tao Leigh Goffe is a London-born writer, professor, and interdisciplinary media artist. Based in New York City, her work negotiates Black diasporic intellectual and political life. She specializes in colonial histories of race, debt, and technology. She studied English literature at Princeton University before pursuing a PhD at Yale University. Dr. Goffe is an assistant professor of Black studies and sexuality at Cornell University. Her research and curatorial work is rooted in literatures and theories of labor that center Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. Much of her artistic and sound design practice explores Caribbean and Afro-Asian histories.

Committed to building intellectual communities beyond institutions, she is the founder of the Dark Laboratory, an engine for the study of race, technology, and ecology through digital storytelling (virtual reality (VR) augmented reality (AR) (XR)). Dr. Goffe is also the Executive Director of the Afro-Asia Group, an organization that centers the intersections of African and Asian diasporas, futurity, and solidarities. An avid cook, she gives lectures on food histories drawing from African, Asian, and Caribbean diaspora cuisines. From aubergine curry to jerk snapper to vegan Jamaican patties, her recipes have been published in various collections and cookbooks on plantation foodways.

www.taoleighgoffe.com
Founder, Dark Laboratory

Read Tao’s latest article: "Bigger than the Sound: The Jamaican Chinese Infrastructure of Reggae," Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2020

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Literary Agent Representation: Janklow & Nesbit Associates