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.
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.
[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.
[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.