"Herbjørnsrud has held lectures on global perspectives, Eurocentrism, and decolonizing the Academy at the University of Cambridge, Royal Holloway (University of London), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Berliner Festspiele.Herbjørnsrud was the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian weekly left-wing news magazine "Ny Tid" from 2005 to 2015; formerly a reporter and op-ed-writer for the conservative newspaper Aftenposten.