What was the name of the Cambridge professorship C.S. Lewis held from 1954?

From 1954, C.S. Lewis held the Cambridge Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Lewis became the first holder of this professorship at the University of Cambridge in 1954. The appointment followed his long academic career at Oxford’s Magdalen College, where he had taught English literature since 1925.

His Cambridge position matched his scholarly interests in medieval and Renaissance texts. Lewis wrote influential criticism of works and traditions from those periods, including studies of allegory, courtly love, and English literary history.

The Cambridge appointment did not replace his connection with Oxford immediately: he continued to be associated with Magdalen College as an honorary fellow. He held the Cambridge chair until his death in 1963. The title is sometimes shortened in references, but its full name identifies the specific literary periods central to his scholarship.