What was C.S. Lewis’s academic field at Cambridge University when he became a professor there?

C.S. Lewis was a professor of Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge University.

Lewis was appointed to a professorship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954. The chair was the Cambridge University professorship of Medieval and Renaissance English, a position he held until his death in 1963.

His academic reputation had been established at Oxford, where he taught English literature and produced influential criticism. Works such as The Allegory of Love and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century show the historical range of his scholarship.

Lewis is sometimes remembered primarily as a fantasy author or Christian apologist, which can obscure the fact that he was a professional literary scholar. His Cambridge chair reflected his expertise in older English literature, especially the cultural and literary traditions of the medieval and Renaissance periods.