At which Cambridge college did C.S. Lewis teach from 1954?

C.S. Lewis taught at Magdalene College, Cambridge, from 1954.

In 1954, Lewis became the first holder of the newly established chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge. He was based at Magdalene College, where he taught and continued his scholarly work until his death in 1963.

This appointment followed many years at Oxford, where Lewis had studied and taught. Because Oxford is so central to his biography, readers sometimes incorrectly identify an Oxford college as the institution where he held his Cambridge professorship. Magdalene College is the relevant Cambridge institution.

Lewis’s Cambridge position reflected his standing as a literary scholar, not only as a popular Christian writer and novelist. His academic work included studies of medieval and Renaissance literature, and his appointment helped connect his public reputation with his professional scholarship. He retained links with Oxford while making Cambridge his principal academic base during the final decade of his life.