What was the name of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford college?

C.S. Lewis was a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Lewis was elected to a fellowship at Magdalen in 1925 and remained associated with the college for nearly three decades. He taught English literature there, and his Oxford years included friendships and intellectual exchanges with writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Its grounds, including the River Cherwell and the college deer park, became part of Lewis’s daily environment. He also delivered the annual Riddell Memorial Lectures at Oxford, later published as The Abolition of Man.

Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge in 1954 after accepting the newly established chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. The two institutions have similarly spelled names, but they are different colleges at different universities. Oxford’s Magdalen is pronounced “maudlin,” another detail that can surprise international readers.