Ellis Tinios

Ellis Tinios is an Honorary Lecturer at the School of History, University of Leeds, with affiliations as a visiting researcher at Ritsumeikan University's Art Research Center (Kyoto) and special assistant to the Japanese Section of the Department of Asia, British Museum. His career spans academic research, museum curation, and education.

• University of Leeds: Honorary Lecturer in History
• Ritsumeikan University: Visiting Researcher in Art Research Center
• British Museum: Special Assistant to Japanese Section

His research focuses on the history and bibliography of Japanese woodblock-printed illustrated books, Edo-Meiji period visual culture, and the technical practices of ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and his collaborators. He has contributed to the understanding of shunga (erotic art) within commercial publishing frameworks and analyzed the materiality of Japanese books.

Ellis has taught courses at Rare Book School (RBS) since 2004, including Japanese Illustrated Books, 1615–1868 and The Art of the Book in Edo & Meiji Japan, with a 2013 course dedicated specifically to Hokusai's book illustrations.