What is the name of the Cambridge college where C.S. Lewis held his professorship?

C.S. Lewis held his Cambridge professorship at Magdalene College.

In 1954, Lewis became the first occupant of Cambridge University’s Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. The chair was attached to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he remained an academic until his death in 1963.

The college name is easy to confuse with Magdalen College, Oxford. Lewis spent most of his earlier academic career at Oxford’s Magdalen College, spelled without the final “e.” His Cambridge appointment therefore involved a move from Magdalen to Magdalene, two separate institutions with nearly identical names.

Magdalene College is pronounced differently from the Oxford college in common English usage, another source of uncertainty for readers. Lewis continued to live at The Kilns near Oxford rather than relocating permanently to Cambridge, commuting for his teaching and academic work.