He has had a very varied career including working as a radio producer for the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and he is a regular contributor to the Danish national daily Berlingske . In 1998, he established the Centre for Irish Studies at Aarhus University. In 2001, he founded the highly ranked Nordic Irish Studies Journal. In the 1990s, he served for four years as President of the Danish Association for American Studies, and, in the following decade, he was President of the European Federation for Associations and Centres of Irish Studies for another four years. He stepped down as Director of the Centre for Irish Studies in 2009 to become Director for the Canadian Studies Centre at Aarhus University. His current research interests focus on the development of Canadian nationalism since 1900.