Great World Texts (GWT) is a collaboration between Gallatin Writing Program faculty, Gallatin undergraduates, and New York City public high school teachers and students. Each year, students study a canonical work or contemporary classic.

In a tutorial, Gallatin undergraduates discuss the text, learn about social and pedagogical issues, and become mentors in the high schools. During the semester, mentors

facilitate the study of the text using multimedia classroom resources created by the faculty adviser. The semester culminates in a public performance at which the high school students share writing projects inspired by the book.

GWT13: The Mahabharata

The 2020 text was the ancient Indian national epic The Mahabharata. 

GWT partnered with teachers Jasmine Stakley at Brooklyn Preparatory High School and Katie Silbereis, Dannysha Diaz, and David Whitman at University Neighborhood High School. 

Our mentors were: Pilar Cerón, Dariely de la Cruz, Charlie Dodge, Van Tingley, Moosa Waraich, and Kristi Wong. 

Vasundara Varadhan was the faculty advisor for GWT13.