At which Oxford college did C.S. Lewis teach English literature for nearly three decades?

C.S. Lewis taught at Oxford’s Magdalen College from 1925 until 1954.

Lewis was elected a fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen in 1925, beginning the Oxford academic career that made him a prominent medieval and Renaissance literature scholar. He remained there until accepting the newly created chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge in 1954.

Magdalen College was an important setting in Lewis’s professional and social life. He taught students, wrote major books, and took part in the informal literary discussions associated with the Inklings. His Oxford years also overlapped with his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who taught at another Oxford college.

A common mix-up is to associate Lewis’s entire academic career with Cambridge. Cambridge was his later university appointment; Magdalen College was the Oxford institution where he spent most of his teaching career.