Felicia Ray Gressitt Bock (October 28, 1916 – December 29, 2011)[1] was an American scholar and translator of Japanese folklore and history.

She helped launch the Japanese Historical Text Initiative at Berkeley, and is best known for her two-volume translation of the Engishiki, a civil code from Engi-era Japan.

[6][7] Gressitt graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1936 with an undergraduate honors thesis titled "The scientific knowledge of the Romans from the earliest times to the Augustan age".

[14] She provided a grant to help launch the Japanese Historical Text Initiative at Berkeley,[15] and endowed a professorship at Mount Holyoke College, known as the Felicia Gressitt Bock Chair in Asian Studies.

[9] In 2003, she gave an oral history interview to the League of Women Voters of Berkeley.