At which Cambridge college did C.S. Lewis hold his English professorship?

C.S. Lewis held his Cambridge English professorship at Magdalene College.

In 1954, Lewis became the first holder of the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. He was elected to a fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he continued his academic work after almost three decades at Oxford.

Lewis remained associated with Magdalene College until his death in 1963. His Cambridge appointment allowed him to teach and write while continuing the literary and Christian work that had made him widely known outside universities.

The college name is an important detail. Lewis had previously been a fellow and tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford, spelled without the final “e.” His Cambridge college was Magdalene, spelled with an “e.” The two colleges have similar names but belong to different universities and marked separate stages of Lewis’s academic career.