C.S. Lewis began teaching at Cambridge University in 1954.
That year he was appointed the first holder of the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The appointment marked a major transition after nearly three decades as a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford.
Lewis continued writing during his Cambridge period, producing works of literary criticism, Christian apologetics, and fiction. His Cambridge colleagues and students knew him primarily as a serious scholar of English literature, even though the popularity of Narnia increasingly made him a public figure.
The two institutions are easy to mix up because both have a Magdalen College. Oxford has Magdalen College, where Lewis taught from 1925; Cambridge has Magdalene College, with the final “e,” where he taught from 1954 until his death.