Robert Loss is a professor and the department head of Writing, Literature, and Philosophy at the Columbus College of Art and Design. He is the author of Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music (Bloomsbury Academic), which includes a chapter on Prince’s later work. His essay “How the Exodus Began: Prince and the Black Working Class Imagination” appeared in a special Prince issue of Black Magnolias Literary Journal. He has presented on Prince at numerous conferences, including Prince From Minneapolis (2018), #DM40GB30 (2020), #1plus1plus1is3 (2021), Prince: 78-88 (2021), #SexyMF30 (2022), and many others. His talk from #1plus1plus1is3, “Deconstruction: Work & Racial Capitalism in The Rainbow Children,” was published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, and his talk from #EroticCity40 will appear in JPMS soon. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife and their pets.