C.S. Lewis became a professor at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954.
He was appointed the first holder of the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge. The appointment came after nearly three decades of teaching and scholarship at Oxford, where he had been a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College.
The Cambridge college is named Magdalene, with a final “e,” while Lewis’s Oxford college is Magdalen, without the final “e.” This near-identical naming is a common source of confusion when describing his academic career.
Lewis continued writing after moving to Cambridge, producing works such as Surprised by Joy and Till We Have Faces in the 1950s. His Cambridge career lasted until his retirement in 1963. He died later that year at his home, The Kilns, near Oxford.