Where did C.S. Lewis teach after moving from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954?

After moving from Oxford to Cambridge in 1954, C.S. Lewis taught at Magdalene College.

Lewis was elected to a faculty position at Cambridge University in 1954, becoming the first holder of the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. He remained associated with Magdalene College until his death in 1963.

Before Cambridge, Lewis had spent many years at Oxford. He was a Fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925, and later held a university chair there. His Cambridge appointment gave him a new academic setting while preserving his work in medieval and Renaissance literature.

The two colleges are easy to confuse because both are named Magdalene, but they are different institutions: Magdalen College is at Oxford, while Magdalene College is at Cambridge. Lewis’s Cambridge college uses the spelling ending in “-ele.”