Jennifer Ball English CV
Jennifer M. Ball / 包弫
Websites:
OriginofAlphabet.com
Hanzifinder.com
Fingerpuppetsrock.com
Publications:
《摇滚女孩的高数人生》 (Higher Math, Chinese version) Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing House, 2019
《催化剂 Catalyst 》(Chinese and English) Soochow University, 2017
Catalyst (a novel about scientists in a rock band, a love triangle, and scientific fraud. This book was taught at Stanford by Carl Djerassi—the inventor of the birth control pill—in a class called “Science in Fiction, not Science Fiction”) Faber & Faber, 1997
Higher Math, the Book Moose Minnion Never Wrote (a novel) Faber & Faber, 1991
The Verbum Book of Digital Typography (non-fiction) M & T Books, 1991
Agouron Annual Report, 1993
Stories in the San Diego Reader, 1997-2007
Education:
Tutorming Online Chinese 2017-present
Berkeley Extension Methods & Mat. for Teaching ESL received an “A-,” 12/2012
Berkeley Elementary Mandarin Intensive Passed – Aug. 10, 2012
Berkeley Extension Mandarin II received an “A,” Spring 2012
Berkeley Extension Mandarin I received an “A,” Fall 2011
San Diego State University (SDSU) MFA in Creative Writing, 1994
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) BFA in Theater, 1981
Work Experience:
English Professor Soochow University, Suzhou, China, 2013-14, 2015-16, 2017-18 (four terms)
ESL Teacher, Lao Family Center, Oakland, CA, 2012
Music Editor San Diego Reader, San Diego, CA, 1997-2005
English 101 Instructor San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 1992-1993
Computer Graphics Instructor Platt Technical College, San Diego, CA 1991-1997
Lead singer/French horn/trumpet Fingerpuppets (rock band), San Francisco Bay Area, CA 2006-current
Lead singer/French horn Free-Range Chickens (rock band), San Diego, CA 1991-2005
Computer Graphic Artist Prepress Technologies, San Diego, CA1990
Computer Graphic Artist Hunter Industries, San Diego, CA 1988-1990
Computer consultant Central National-Gottesman, Agouron, and Genprobe, San Diego, CA 1988-1997
Jennifer has given slide shows about language to scientific companies and universities in China with her HanziFinder business partner Chao Xu, as well as given numerous book readings with her translator/interpreter Maggie Li. Jennifer has taught 453 Chinese college students and brought many of them to the US and to Spain. Jennifer wrote and directed “Life is a Low-Budget Musical” at UCLA, was on seven game shows, worked for the BBC, and was a comedian at the Comic Strip in New York City. Jennifer can speak elementary Mandarin as well as read and type simplified Hanzi.