Tao Leigh Goffe is an Assistant Professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University. She leads the Afro-Asia Group, and has a joint appointment between the Department of Africana Studies and Programme in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Tao Leigh Goffe’s academic work examines the poetic and archival entanglements of the Black Pacific and Chinese Atlantic. Her publications include “Sugarwork: The Gastropoetics of Afro-Asia After the Plantation” (Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, April, 2019) and "Guano in their destiny: Race, Geology, and a Philosophy of Indenture" (Amerasia Journal, June 2019).