C.S. Lewis held his Cambridge chair at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
In 1954 he became the first professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, formally holding the chair until his retirement in 1963. Magdalene College appointed him a fellow, and he continued his academic work there after leaving Oxford’s Magdalen College.
The names of the two colleges are easy to confuse. Lewis spent nearly three decades at Magdalen College, Oxford, but his Cambridge appointment was at Magdalene College, with an extra “e.” His Cambridge position reflected his scholarly expertise in English literature from the medieval and Renaissance periods, while his popular reputation rested on fiction and Christian writing as well as academic criticism.