Sean Dwyer
By Gwen Frost
Name: Sean Dwyer
Position: Senior instructor of spanish
Education background:
Hometown: Gary, Indiana
Classes you are teaching this quarter: spanish 101, and two sections of 104 which is accelerated first year
Claim to fame (article published anywhere cool? Is your cousin brad pitt?): I gave a paper on some spanish films in the spring, I also just had a short story published in a major anthology with twenty one other writers and I’ve had some short stories published here and there
QUESTIONS:
What did you want to be when you grew up (as a kid)?
I wanted to be either a doctor or a baseball player. They didn’t happen. By the time I got to ninth grade, and might have started working toward pre-med, I realized that I love languages, so I went that direction instead
Which celebrity would you want to play you in a movie? What kind of movie is it?
I think the movie would be something along the lines of Angela’s Ashes. When my hair is down, it looks like the picture of Johnny Depp on The Dark Half DVD, but I don’t want to be presumptuous and say Johnny Depp. Probably a new actor who’s just trying to get a start because I wouldn’t want any star to have to be associated with my story too much.
What are you reading right now/most recently? What’s it about?
Most recently would be almost three years ago because of my car accident. I have not been able to read any fiction since then, because of the injury. But I do have a plan to read all of Hemingway, and a lot of my friends are authors and some of them have really good books so I’d want to devour those as soon as my brain lets me.
Aside from necessities, what are three things you could not go a day without?
I could not go a day without music, without walking outside and looking at the nature that we have here, or without a cup of tea.
Which country do you want to spend 10 years living in?
Spain. I would probably shuttle between Salamanca and Madrid
If you could join any past or current music group which would you want to join? Why?
I’ve thought about all these bands that don’t share my lifestyle basically, and I like the melodic types of music and I don’t like music that winds up being angry too much. If we’re talking group, if I could be the fifth member of ABBA, I would have done that.