C.S. Lewis began teaching at Oxford’s Magdalen College in 1925.
In 1925, Lewis was elected a fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford. He remained connected with the college until 1954, when he moved to Cambridge to take the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. His Oxford appointment established the academic setting in which he developed most of his career.
Lewis taught students, researched literary history, and wrote influential criticism while at Magdalen. Oxford also brought him into contact with other writers, including J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams. Their conversations helped form the Inklings, an informal literary discussion group.
The date is sometimes confused with Lewis’s conversion milestones. He became a theist in 1930 and returned to Christian belief in 1931, but those religious changes did not mark the start of his Oxford teaching career. His Magdalen appointment began six years earlier, in 1925.