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

Ann Bergren (7 October 1942 – 10 May 2018)[1] was Professor of Greek literature, Literary Theory, and Contemporary Architecture at University of California, Los Angeles.[2][3] She is known for her scholarship on Ancient Greek language, gender, and contemporary architecture.

Career

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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.[4][5] Her dissertation was published as a book by the American Philological Association in 1975.[6] 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.[7]

She also developed an interest in architecture, and in 1999 earned a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[7] She was a faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.[8]

A collection of her essays was published by the Center for Hellenic Studies in 2008.[2][9][10]

She frequently taught in the summer program at B.A.S.E (Beijing Architectural Studio Enterprise) in the Caochangdi District, Beijing.[11]

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.[12]

Awards and fellowships

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Bergren was awarded the Society for Classical Studies Awards for Excellence in Collegiate Teaching in 1988.[13] In the same year she also received a UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.[14] She was a fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. in 1976-77.[5][15]

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.[16]

Selected publications

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  • The Etymology and Usage of Peirar in Early Greek Poetry. American Philological Association. 1975. ISBN 9780674023727[17]
  • '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.[18]
  • '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.[19]
  • 'Artemisia, Aristotle, and the View from L.A.' in eds. Linder and Bergren, Scogin Elam and Bray: Critical Architecture. Rizzoli. 1992. ISBN 9780847815340
  • 'The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus Architecture Gender Philosophy.' Assemblage, 21, 7-23. 1993.[20]
  • 'Female Fetish Urban Form.' in eds. Diana Agrest et al., The Sex of Architecture. Harry N. Abrams. 1996. ISBN 9780810926837
  • 'Jon Jerde and The Architecture of Pleasure.' Assemblage, 37, 1998.[21]
  • "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. ISBN 9780674023727[9][10][22]

References

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  1. ^ "BERGREN, Ann Louise Taylor".
  2. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Ann Bergren, Weaving Truth: Essays on Language and the Female in Greek Thought". chs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  10. ^ a b 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. ^ "In Memoriam: Ann Bergren". 16 May 2018.
  12. ^ "In Memoriam: Ann Bergren". 16 May 2018.
  13. ^ "Awards for Excellence in Collegiate Teaching: Previous Winners". Society for Classical Studies. 2011-04-13. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  14. ^ "Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients | UCLA Academic Senate". senate.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  15. ^ "Programs - Fellowships - Previous Fellows". chs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
  16. ^ "Venice III". Morphosis. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ Bergren, Ann (1993). "The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus Architecture Gender Philosophy". Assemblage (21): 7–23. doi:10.2307/3171212. JSTOR 3171212.
  21. ^ Bergren, Ann (1998). "Jon Jerde and the Architecture of Pleasure". Assemblage (37): 9–35. doi:10.2307/3171353. JSTOR 3171353.
  22. ^ 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.
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