At which Oxford college was C.S. Lewis a fellow from 1925 until 1954?

C.S. Lewis was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925 until 1954.

After serving in the First World War and studying at Oxford, Lewis was elected to a fellowship and tutorship at Magdalen College in 1925. He taught English literature there for nearly three decades, combining tutorial work with his own writing and scholarship.

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford and is distinct from the university-wide posts Lewis held later. In 1954, Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge University, where he became the first holder of the newly established Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

The two similarly named colleges can cause confusion: Lewis’s Oxford fellowship was at Magdalen, spelled without a final “e,” while his Cambridge college was Magdalene, with a final “e.” This distinction is important when identifying the institution connected to his Oxford career.