C.S. Lewis moved from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954.
In 1954, Lewis became the first holder of the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. He was also elected a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. The appointment followed nearly three decades of teaching at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he had been a fellow and tutor since 1925.
Lewis continued to live in Oxford for much of this period and traveled to Cambridge for his academic duties. His Cambridge appointment did not erase his Oxford connections: he remained closely associated with Oxford friends, societies, and literary discussions.
The move is sometimes dated incorrectly because Lewis’s best-known popular books were written before and after the appointment. His major fiction and Christian works span several decades, so publication dates do not provide a reliable marker for the change in universities. The precise academic transition occurred in 1954.