What was the title of C.S. Lewis's first Cambridge professorship?

C.S. Lewis’s first Cambridge professorship was the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English.

In 1954, Cambridge University appointed Lewis to the newly established position of Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English. He moved from Oxford, where he had been a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College since 1925. His Cambridge appointment recognized his scholarship in medieval and Renaissance literature.

The chair was connected with the English Faculty and covered periods that included Middle English writing and the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Lewis’s academic work ranged from medieval allegory to Renaissance poetry, and his influential studies included The Allegory of Love and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama.

Lewis held the Cambridge professorship until his retirement in 1963. He continued living at The Kilns near Oxford rather than moving permanently to Cambridge, and he divided his time between academic duties, writing, and correspondence.