Dr. Hunt (Ph.D., Musicology, Duke University, 2001) is currently Associate Professor of Musicology/Music Theory, and the Area Coordinator of UTA’s Theory/Composition Area. He teaches undergraduate courses in Music Theory, Music Appreciation, Orchestration, Ear-Training, and Advanced Music Theory Seminars (including Schenkerian Analysis and Darcy/Hepokoski's Sonata Theory) and graduate courses in Music History and Form. He has been nominated for UTA's Chancellor's Award three times and the Gertrude Golladay Oustanding Teaching Award twice.

His research focuses on music of the 19th century, including Wagner, Schubert, and Brahms with approaches ranging from formal analysis, sonata theory, and compositional genesis to Schenkerian and Neo-Riemannian analysis. His publications include articles in Music Theory Spectrum, Theory and Practice, Opera Quarterly, Wagner, Methodology of Music Research, Journal of Schenkerian Studies and 19th-century Music Review, and he has presented papers at numerous conferences, including the national meeting of SMT (Society for Music Theory) in 2005. His current project is centered on Hepokoski and Darcy’s “Sonata Theory,” and in particular, its application to the “3-key exposition” in works by Schubert, Brahms, and others; he will present a paper on the subject at the forthcoming national SMT Meeting in Montreal, Quebec in Fall of 2009. He recently was awarded a Faculty Development Leave, during which he was appointed the Joseph E. and Grace W. Valentine Visiting Professor of Music at Amherst College for the Spring of 2009. During this semester, he hosted Professor James Hepokoski from Yale for a lecture and informal meeting with his undergraduate students.

He is also an accomplished pianist and bassoonist, having performed as bassoonist in the UTA symphony orchestra (in works such as Elgar’s “Enigma Variations” and Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture) and as pianist in several concerts, including a program of Piano Quartets and complete performances of Schumann's "Dichterliebe" and Vaughn Williams' "Songs of Travel" with fellow faculty member Dr. Sam Savage.