Where did C.S. Lewis serve as a fellow and tutor for most of his academic career?

C.S. Lewis served as a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, for most of his academic career. He held the position from 1925 until 1954, teaching English literature while developing his career as a writer and Christian thinker.

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. Lewis’s Oxford years included friendships and intellectual exchanges with writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams, as well as his conversion from atheism to Christianity.

A common mix-up concerns Lewis’s later appointment. In 1954 he left Oxford for Cambridge, where he became the first holder of the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge. That college is different from Magdalen College, Oxford, despite the similar names.

The Oxford college remains closely associated with Lewis through his teaching, writing, and the memorial known as Addison’s Walk.