At which Oxford college did C.S. Lewis teach and live for much of his career?

C.S. Lewis taught and lived for much of his Oxford career at Magdalen College. He became a fellow and tutor in English there in 1925 and remained associated with the college until moving to Cambridge in 1954.

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, founded in 1458. Lewis’s rooms overlooked the college grounds, and the setting became an important part of his professional and social life. He also walked with friends along the River Cherwell and met regularly with literary colleagues.

This college is sometimes confused with Lewis’s later academic base. In 1954 he became the first holder of the newly established chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Magdalen, with an “o,” is the Oxford college; Magdalene, with an “e,” is the Cambridge college.