In which Oxford college did C.S. Lewis hold a fellowship and tutoring position?

C.S. Lewis held a fellowship and tutoring position at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Lewis was elected a fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College in 1925. The college, founded in 1458, is one of Oxford’s historic colleges and is known for its medieval buildings, riverside meadows, and annual May Morning tradition. Lewis’s rooms and working life there became closely associated with his Oxford career.

During his years at Magdalen, Lewis taught English literature and wrote many of the books that established his reputation. He also hosted or joined literary conversations that helped make Oxford an important center of twentieth-century British writing. His friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien developed during this period, although the two men differed on literary taste and religious questions.

Lewis’s fellowship at Magdalen ended when he moved to Cambridge in 1954. He became Cambridge’s first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English and held that chair at Magdalene College, Cambridge, a different institution with a similarly spelled name. That Oxford-Cambridge distinction is a frequent source of confusion.