Leah Flax Barber
Lecturer, UMass Writing Program
Leah Flax Barber is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at UMass Amherst, teaching first year writing. She holds an MFA in poetry from the UMass Amherst MFA for Poets and Writers. Her teaching interests include media literacy and the intersection of personal and persuasive writing. In January 2023 she received the inaugural Peggy Woods Award for Innovative Teaching from the UMass Amherst Writing Program. As an IIF fellow Leah will present on generative uses of large language models in the writing classroom.