Academic Career
Bock translated Akira Kurosawa's partial autobiography, Something Like An Autobiography (ISBN 0-394-71439-3), which was published in 1983 by Vintage International. In 1985 she wrote the first book-length study in English of Mikio Naruse, Naruse: A Master of the Japanese Cinema.
Bock has taught college classes, as well as teaching throughout Hayward as a K-12 and adult school substitute teacher.
She holds a Certificate in Non-Profit Management from the University of San Francisco.
In 1994, Bock joined the Green Party. She served as a volunteer on Ralph Nader's 1996 campaign for the presidency.
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