What subject did C.S. Lewis teach as a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford?

C.S. Lewis taught English literature as a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Lewis was elected a fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College in 1925. He remained at Oxford for nearly three decades, teaching students, giving tutorials, and conducting literary scholarship. His academic work covered medieval and Renaissance literature, including the literature of the Middle Ages and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

His Oxford teaching career existed alongside his fiction and Christian writing. Lewis became known to students for energetic lectures and wide-ranging knowledge, while his scholarly books included The Allegory of Love and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama.

In 1954, Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge University, where he became the first holder of the newly established Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. Magdalen College was therefore his Oxford institution, while Magdalene College, Cambridge, was associated with his later Cambridge post; the similar names can cause confusion.