Poe M. Allphin

Lost & Found Archival Research Fellow

Poe M. Allphin is a third-year musicology PhD student at the CUNY Graduate Center
and an adjunct instructor at Queens College. His research centers on 20th and 21st-
century queer and trans communities in the U.S., bringing together queer and trans
studies, disability studies, and music by using archives and conducting oral histories.
Poe’s work has been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly and Resonance and
is frequently stepped on by his cat, Percy. He is currently writing his dissertation on gay,
lesbian, and feminist communal song in the 1970s and 1980s.