 He became a Tutor, Fellow and, latterly, Emeritus Fellow, at St Edmund Hall, Oxford between 1927 and 1944, Professor of French Literature and Language at Royal Holloway, University of London between 1944 and 1964, and Senior Fellow of Warwick University between 1966 and 1970.Hunt was known for his work on Balzac.He published several books on literature and thought in nineteenth-century France.