What was C.S. Lewis's first academic post at Oxford University?

C.S. Lewis’s first academic post at Oxford University was as a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College.

He was elected to a fellowship at Magdalen College in 1925 and remained there until 1954. His work involved teaching English literature and tutoring students, while he also developed his career as a writer and scholar. Magdalen’s medieval buildings and surrounding landscape later became closely associated with public images of Lewis.

In 1954, Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge University, where he became the first holder of the newly established chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The two colleges have similar names but belong to different universities: Magdalen College is at Oxford, while Magdalene College is at Cambridge.

Lewis’s Oxford fellowship came before his Cambridge professorship. He was not initially a university professor at Oxford, and that distinction is a common source of confusion when summaries compress his academic career.