David Cassuto (USA) is a former assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-Rolla and currently a J.D. candidate at the University of California-Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the author of Cold Running River (University of Michigan Press, 1994), an ecological biography of Michigan’s Pere Marquette River and has just completed another book, this one focusing on water-use in the Southwest and its representations in twentieth-century literature. Cassuto inititated the “green” thread in ebr with a review of the essay collection, Wild Ideas, entitled Wild Ambitions, and he has a review of Johnathan Harr’s A Civil Action in the green section of critical ecologies (ebr4), entitled: No More Heroes.
David N. Cassuto, assistant professor of English specializing in literature and ecology at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is the author of Cold Running River (University of Michigan Press 1994).
He is currently on leave to study environmental law at the University of California at Berkeley and is completing a book about the interface between literature and politics concerning water use in the Southwest. cassuto@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Apparently he is now an attorney, specialized in water issues.