C.S. Lewis spent most of his adult academic life in Oxford.
Lewis studied at Oxford and became a fellow and tutor of Magdalen College in 1925. He remained at Oxford until 1954, teaching English literature and writing many of the works that established his reputation. His Oxford home, The Kilns, became an important setting for his domestic and intellectual life.
Oxford also connected Lewis with the Inklings, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield. The city’s colleges, libraries, churches, and surrounding countryside frequently appear in accounts of Lewis’s life and intellectual development.
Lewis later moved to Cambridge after being appointed the first Cambridge professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. He continued to live at The Kilns near Oxford, however, so Cambridge did not replace Oxford as his home. Belfast was his birthplace, but not the city where he spent his academic career.