What is the name of the senior academic post C.S. Lewis held at Cambridge from 1954?

From 1954, C.S. Lewis held the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University.

Lewis was appointed to this Cambridge chair in 1954, after many years teaching at Oxford. The position was based at Magdalene College, Cambridge, which should not be confused with Magdalen College, Oxford, where he had earlier been a fellow and tutor.

His academic work focused especially on medieval and Renaissance literature. Books such as The Allegory of Love and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century demonstrate his importance as a literary historian and critic, independent of his popular fiction and Christian apologetics.

The appointment also helps explain why biographies of Lewis connect him with both Oxford and Cambridge. Oxford was his principal academic home for most of his career, while Cambridge provided his later professorship. He continued writing and teaching at Cambridge until his death in 1963.