What was C.S. Lewis’s chair at Cambridge University officially called?

C.S. Lewis’s Cambridge chair was officially called Medieval and Renaissance English.

In 1954, Lewis left Oxford after nearly three decades at Magdalen College and became the first holder of the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The position matched his academic specialization in older English literature, especially medieval poetry, Renaissance writing, and the intellectual history surrounding those periods.

Lewis had already established a reputation as a literary scholar before becoming famous for Narnia and Christian apologetics. His major scholarly works include The Allegory of Love, published in 1936, and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama, published in 1954.

The Cambridge college is Magdalene, spelled with an extra “le,” unlike Magdalen College at Oxford. That spelling difference causes frequent confusion when identifying Lewis’s institutions. He held the Cambridge chair until his death in 1963, while continuing to write and publish literary and religious works.