Ann Bergren (7 October 1942 – 10 May 2018) was Professor of

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, and Contemporary Architecture at

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. She is known for her scholarship on Ancient Greek language, gender, and

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Career

Bergren completed her PhD 'The poetics of a formulaic process: etymology and usage of ''PEIRAR'' in Homer and archaic poetry' at

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in 1973 under the supervision of

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. Her dissertation was published as a book by the

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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 Masters in Architecture from the

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. She was a faculty member at the

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. A collection of her essays was published by the

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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

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in Hangzhou, China; she came in response to an invitation from Pritzker Award-winning architect Wang Shu.

Awards and fellowships

Bergren was awarded the

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Awards for Excellence in Collegiate Teaching in 1988. In the same year she also received a

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Distinguished Teaching Award. She was a fellow at the

in Washington, D.C. in 1976-77. She also commissioned prizewinning architecture: an extension to her home designed by

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constructed in 1986 won the 1986 National

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Honor Award and the 1985 Los Angeles

Merit Award.

Selected publications

* ''The Etymology and Usage of Peirar in Early Greek Poetry.'' American Philological Association. 1975. * 'Allegorizing Winged Words: Similes and Symbolization in "Odyssey" V.' ''Classical World,'' 74(2), 109-123. 1980. * 'Sacred apostrophe: Re-presentation and imitation in the homeric hymns.' ''Arethusa, 15''(1), 83-108. 1982. * 'Language and the female in early Greek thought.' ''Arethusa, 16''(1), 69-95. 1983. * '"The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite": Tradition and Rhetoric, Praise and Blame.' ''Classical Antiquity,'' 8(1) 1-411989. * 'Artemisia, Aristotle, and the View from L.A.' in eds. Linder and Bergren, ''Scogin Elam and Bray: Critical Architecture.'' Rizzoli. 1992. * 'The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus Architecture Gender Philosophy.' ''Assemblage'', 21, 7-23. 1993. * 'Female Fetish Urban Form.' in eds. Diana Agrest et al., ''The Sex of Architecture.'' Harry N. Abrams. 1996. * 'Jon Jerde and The Architecture of Pleasure.' ''Assemblage,'' 37, 1998. * "The Easier Beauty of Animate Form." ''Architectural Record'' 188(11), 78-82. 2000. * ''Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought,'' Hellenic Studies Series 19. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. 2008.

References

External links

Classicalstudies.org memoriam for Ann Bergren

Sciarc.edu memoriam for Ann Bergren
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergren, Ann 1942 births 2018 deaths Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni Classical scholars of the University of California, Los Angeles Southern California Institute of Architecture faculty Women classical scholars American classical scholars