Richard Ellis
· Professor of ClassicsUniversity of California, Los Angeles · Classics
Active 1937–2026
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About
Richard Ellis is a faculty member in the Department of Classics at UCLA, having begun lecturing there in the winter quarter of 2014. He completed his undergraduate degree in Cambridge, England, and earned his doctorate at the University of Southern California. His teaching repertoire includes courses on Ancient Greek Philosophy, Greek Culture and Mythology, Ancient Tragedy, and Ancient Athletics, as well as Latin and Greek reading classes covering authors such as Homer, Hesiod, Lysias, Aeschylus, Plato, and Seneca. His research interests focus on Archaic and Classical Greek philosophy and literature. His PhD dissertation, titled ‘Heraclitus’ Children: Brains, Bodies and Culture at Play,’ explored the figure of the child in the work of the Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus. He is working on transforming this dissertation into a book that examines the role of the child in philosophical and literary thought from ancient Greece to 20th-century Weimar Germany. His forthcoming articles will discuss Heraclitus’ ludic philosophy and his relevance to post-humanism, including dialogues with contemporary thinkers such as Eugen Fink and Gilles Deleuze. Additionally, Ellis is involved in a major project on 17th-century British philosopher John Locke, specifically his Disputations on the Law of Nature. He is co-editing a new Clarendon edition for Oxford University Press in collaboration with Dr. Hannah Dawson of the New Institute of the Humanities at the University of London.
Research topics
- Internal medicine
- Immunology
- Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Pathology
- Neuroscience
Selected publications
Community Curation of Microbial Metabolites Enables Biological Insights of Metabolomics Data
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026-01-29
articleOpen accessMicrobial metabolites play a critical role in regulating ecosystems, including the human body and its microbiota. However, understanding the physiologically relevant role of these molecules, especially through liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based untargeted metabolomics, poses significant challenges and often requires manual parsing of a large amount of literature, databases, and webpages. To address this gap, we established the Collaborative Microbial Metabolite Cente…
Preprints.org · 2025-06-11
preprintOpen accessPsychostimulants such as methamphetamine (Meth) induce high dopamine (DA) levels in the brain, which can modify immune cells expressing DA receptors. This is relevant in conditions of infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), overlapping with substance use. However, the effects of DA on HIV latency phenotypes are largely unknown. We used single cell methods and gene network computational analysis to understand these relationships using the U1 latent promonocyte model to identify sig…
UNC Libraries · 2025-11-05
articleOpen accessIntegrating antiretroviral therapy (ART) into HIV care dramatically extended the lifespan for people living with HIV (PWH). Improving the health span requires understanding aging, HIV, associated comorbid conditions, and concurrent treatments. The 14th annual International Workshop on HIV and Aging on October 26-27, 2023 included podium presentations on: Sarcopenia Biology, Pathophysiology, Prevention and Treatment; Long-acting ART; Central Nervous System (CNS) Complications; Asymptomatic Neuroc…
Recent grants
Phase II trial of tesamorelin for cognition in aging HIV-infected persons
NIH · $4.0M · 2015–2023
NIH · $9.9M · 2022–2026
NIH · $1.2M · 2016
Frequent coauthors
- 528 shared
Scott Letendre
Neurobehavioral Research (United States)
- 415 shared
Igor Grant
University of California, San Diego
- 259 shared
David B. Clifford
Washington University in St. Louis
- 225 shared
Christina M. Marra
University of Washington
- 199 shared
Justin C. McArthur
Brigham and Women's Hospital
- 193 shared
Robert K. Heaton
University of California, San Diego
- 185 shared
David J. Moore
University of California, San Diego
- 176 shared
Mariana Cherner
Neurobehavioral Research (United States)
Education
B.A.
Cambridge, England
Ph.D.
University of Southern California
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