In 1942-1945 he worked as an English teacher at Göteborgs högskola and debated teaching as editor of the educational renewal anthologies Levande språkundervisning (1942), Universiteten i en ny värld (1944), and Det unga Göteborg 1944 (1944).
Starting in the late 1940s, he served as a professor of sociology and literature at several American universities until he was diagnosed with cancer in 1967 and he returned to Sweden.