At which university did C.S. Lewis teach for most of his career before moving to Cambridge?

C.S. Lewis taught for most of his academic career at the University of Oxford before moving to Cambridge.

Lewis studied at University College, Oxford, and later held teaching and fellowship positions at Oxford colleges. From 1925 until 1954, he was a fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford. This period included the years in which he became a prominent literary scholar, author, and Christian apologist.

In 1954, Lewis accepted the newly created chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He remained associated with Cambridge until his death in 1963. His move did not erase his Oxford identity: the city and its intellectual communities were central to his friendships, teaching, and writing.

Readers sometimes confuse Lewis’s institutions because both Oxford and Cambridge shaped his career. The key distinction is that Oxford came first and lasted longer, while Cambridge was his final university appointment.