Seit den frühen siebziger Jahren lebte Schürmann in den Vereinigten Staaten, wo er zuerst an der Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., dann an der Duquesne University in Pittsburgh lehrte. ###>It was as a Dominican priest that he first came to the United States in 1971, teaching first at The Catholic University of America in Washington DC, then at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.