C.S. Lewis was appointed to Cambridge University’s chair of Medieval and Renaissance English in 1954. He held the position at Magdalene College, Cambridge, until his retirement in 1963.
The Cambridge appointment followed nearly three decades at Oxford’s Magdalen College, where Lewis had been a fellow and tutor in English. His move gave him a formal professorship and placed him in a university environment strongly connected with medieval and Renaissance literature.
Lewis’s scholarship included work on medieval allegory, Renaissance literature, and the history of English writing. His academic expertise helped shape fiction and nonfiction that introduced older literary ideas to broad audiences.
The Cambridge college was Magdalene, spelled with a final e, while his earlier Oxford college was Magdalen, without the final e. That spelling difference is a common source of confusion.