Alison Maggart is a historical musicologist, whose research explores intersections between music, science, and poetry/language in the 20th century. She is especially interested in theorizing technoscientific imaginaries, utopianism, and esotericism in ultramodern, serial, New Age, and experimental aesthetics. More specifically, her work has examined U.S. modernist identity and American Jewish structuralist poetics, especially in the late songs of Milton Babbitt; the appropriations and fusions of scientific discourse (especially of quantum physics) with occult and Eastern spiritual philosophies in popular theories of sound and vibration, especially among New Age music communities and contemporary women practitioners of "sound baths"; musical compositions, opera, experimental and electronic works, soundscape compositions, and sound poetry, inspired by astronomy, ecology, and environmental studies. She has presented papers at national and international sound studies, music theory, and musicology conferences. Her work on Babbitt has been published or forthcoming in The Journal of the American Musicological Society, Perspectives of New Music, Contemporary Music Review and Current Musicology.