[2] Starting in 1922 he was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
He subsequently served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin from 1936 until his retirement in 1963.
At the University of Wisconsin, he was the chairman of the English department for a tenure of ten years.
[3] In 1922, Hughes' "Study of Dante in France since 1870" divided the annual prize of the Dante Society of America.
[4] In 1929 Hughes had published a volume entitled Virgil and Spenser.