At which Cambridge college did C.S. Lewis become a fellow in 1954?

C.S. Lewis became a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954.

Lewis moved from Oxford to Cambridge after receiving a teaching appointment at Magdalene College. He held the Cambridge position from 1954 until his death in 1963, while retaining the academic reputation he had built through teaching, literary criticism, Christian writing, and fiction.

This fact is often confused with Lewis’s long Oxford connection. At Oxford, he was a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925 until 1954. The names Magdalene and Magdalen are similar but refer to different colleges in different universities: Magdalene College is in Cambridge, while Magdalen College is in Oxford.

The Cambridge appointment gave Lewis a formal professorship and fellowship later in his career. It did not mean he had left academic life; rather, it marked his transition from Oxford to Cambridge after nearly three decades at Oxford.