Ann Bergren

Ann Bergren
Born(1942-10-07)7 October 1942
Lincoln
Died10 May 2018(2018-05-10) (aged 75)
Venice, California
Academic background
EducationHarvard University
Academic work
DisciplineClassics; Architecture
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Los Angeles; Southern California Institute of Architecture

Ann Bergren (7 October 1942 – 10 May 2018) was Professor of Greek literature, Literary Theory, and Contemporary Architecture at University of California, Los Angeles. She is known for her scholarship on Ancient Greek language, gender, and contemporary architecture.

Career

Bergren completed her PhD 'The poetics of a formulaic process: etymology and usage of PEIRAR in Homer and archaic poetry' at Harvard University in 1973 under the supervision of Gregory Nagy. Her dissertation was published as a book by the American Philological Association in 1975. From 1979 she was a member of the department of Classics at UCLA, and she was the first woman in the department to be awarded tenure.

She also developed an interest in architecture, and in 1999 earned a master's in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She was a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

A collection of her essays was published by the Center for Hellenic Studies in 2008.

She frequently taught in the summer program at B.A.S.E (Beijing Architectural Studio Enterprise) in the Caochangdi District, Beijing.

She gave a series of lectures on her project on the Liu Garden in Suzhou at the distinguished China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, China; she came in response to an invitation from Pritzker Award-winning architect Wang Shu.

Awards and fellowships

Bergren was awarded the Society for Classical Studies Awards for Excellence in Collegiate Teaching in 1988. In the same year she also received a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. She was a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. in 1976-77.

She also commissioned prizewinning architecture: an extension to her home designed by Morphosis Architects constructed in 1986 won the 1986 National AIA Honor Award and the 1985 Los Angeles AIA Merit Award.

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Gordon, Laura. "BERGREN, Ann Louise Taylor". Database of Classical Scholars | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  2. 1 2 "Weaving Truth — Ann Bergren | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  3. ↑ "Emeriti - Department of Classics - UCLA". Department of Classics - UCLA. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  4. ↑ Bergren, A. L. (1973). The poetics of a formulaic process: etymology and usage of PEIRAR in Homer and archaic poetry. Diss. OCLC 76980158.
  5. 1 2 "About Ann Bergren". Classical Inquiries. 2018-05-18. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  6. ↑ Ann., Bergren (2008). Weaving truth : essays on language and the female in Greek thought. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University. ISBN 9780674023727. OCLC 171614127.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "In Memoriam: Ann Bergren". Society for Classical Studies. 2018-05-16. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  8. ↑ "In Memoriam Ann Bergren, 1942-2018 - SCI-Arc". sciarc.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  9. 1 2 "Ann Bergren, Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought". chs.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-05-07. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  10. 1 2 Gastaldi, Viviana (February 2010). "Review of: Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thoughts. Hellenic Studies; 19". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  11. ↑ "Awards for Excellence in Collegiate Teaching: Previous Winners". Society for Classical Studies. 2011-04-13. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  12. ↑ "Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients | UCLA Academic Senate". senate.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-09-05. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  13. ↑ "Programs - Fellowships - Previous Fellows". chs.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-11-08. Retrieved 2026-03-20.
  14. ↑ "Venice III". Morphosis. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  15. ↑ Penney, J. H. W. (1979). "Review of The Etymology and Usage of ΠΕΙΡΑΡ in Early Greek Poetry". The Classical Review. 29 (2): 324–325. doi:10.1017/s0009840x00233611. JSTOR 3063248. S2CID 162853816.
  16. ↑ In a special issue of Arethusa in honor of J. P. Vernant, edited by Bergen and Froma Zeitlin. Peradotto, J. (1982). Introduction. Arethusa, 15(1), 9-10.
  17. ↑ Bergren, Ann L. T. (1989-04-01). ""The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite": Tradition and Rhetoric, Praise and Blame". Classical Antiquity. 8 (1): 1–41. doi:10.2307/25010894. ISSN 0278-6656. JSTOR 25010894.
  18. ↑ Bergren, Ann (1993). "The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus Architecture Gender Philosophy". Assemblage (21): 7–23. doi:10.2307/3171212. JSTOR 3171212.
  19. ↑ Bergren, Ann (1998). "Jon Jerde and the Architecture of Pleasure". Assemblage (37): 9–35. doi:10.2307/3171353. JSTOR 3171353.
  20. ↑ Hemmings, Jessica (July 2010). "Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought, Ann Bergren". Textile. 8 (2): 248–250. doi:10.2752/175183510x12791896965691. ISSN 1475-9756. S2CID 170797887.