What was C.S. Lewis’s academic field at Cambridge after 1954?

After moving to Cambridge in 1954, C.S. Lewis held a chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Lewis became the first holder of the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954. The appointment followed his long career at Oxford, where he had taught English at Magdalen College since 1925. He continued writing popular Christian works and imaginative fiction while carrying out his academic duties.

His scholarship covered medieval and Renaissance texts, allegory, literature, and literary history. Important academic books include The Allegory of Love, published in 1936, and The Discarded Image, published in 1964 after his death.

The Cambridge appointment is easy to confuse with Lewis’s Oxford position because both colleges are called Magdalen or Magdalene. Oxford’s Magdalen has no final e, while Cambridge’s Magdalene includes one. Lewis held his Cambridge chair at Magdalene College until his death in 1963.