Mary Angela Bock is an associate professor in the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. She is a former journalist with an interest in photographic practice, visual theory, and the relationship between media and social justice. She is particularly concerned with matters of truth and authenticity in the process of image production.

Her latest book, Gender and Journalism: An Intersectional Approach (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023), is a textbook based on a course she teaches in the School of Journalism and Media cross-listed with the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at The University of Texas.

Bock's work can be found in the Journal of Communication, Visual Communication Quarterly, and other publications. Her book, Seeing Justice: Witnessing, Crime, and Punishment (Oxford, 2021) theorizes the relationship between media and the state in the production of visual representations of crime, the courts, and justice. Seeing Justice won the Diane S. Hope Book of the Year award from the National Communication Association's Visual Communication Division.

Bock also co-authored Visual Communication Theory and Research (Palgrave, 2014) with Shahira Fahmy and Wayne Wanta. Her 2012 book, Video Journalism: Beyond the One-Man Band studied the relationship between solo multi-media practice and news narrative.