Which Cambridge college appointed C.S. Lewis as a professor in 1954?

Magdalene College appointed C.S. Lewis as a professor in 1954.

Lewis became the first holder of the Cambridge Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature in 1954 and was associated with Magdalene College, Cambridge. He moved from Oxford, where he had taught at Magdalen College for many years. The two colleges have similar names, but they are different institutions in different universities.

At Cambridge, Lewis continued his academic work while writing for a broad public audience. His scholarship covered medieval and Renaissance literature, and his books often connected literary history with questions about morality, belief, imagination, and human nature.

The spelling is a frequent source of errors: Oxford’s college is Magdalen, while Cambridge’s is Magdalene. Lewis remained at Cambridge until his retirement in 1963, the year of his death.