At which university did C.S. Lewis hold the position of Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English?

C.S. Lewis held the position of Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University. He accepted the chair at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954 and remained there until his death in 1963.

Before Cambridge, Lewis spent most of his academic career at Oxford. He was a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925, teaching English literature and publishing influential scholarship. His move to Cambridge gave him a professorship specifically focused on medieval and Renaissance English.

The distinction matters because many biographies identify Lewis primarily with Oxford. Oxford was where he taught for decades, belonged to the literary discussion group known as the Inklings, and wrote much of his apologetic and fictional work. Cambridge, however, was the institution of his named professorship.

Lewis's scholarly interests included medieval allegory, Renaissance literature, and the history of English writing. His academic books include The Allegory of Love and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, 1954.