Which Cambridge college appointed C.S. Lewis to its medieval and Renaissance English professorship?

Magdalene College, Cambridge, appointed C.S. Lewis to its medieval and Renaissance English professorship.

In 1954, Lewis left Oxford and became the first holder of the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University. He was a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he continued teaching and writing until his death in 1963.

The college’s name is Magdalene, ending in “-lene,” and is distinct from Magdalen College in Oxford, where Lewis had been a fellow since 1925. The similar names are among the most frequent biographical mix-ups involving his academic career.

Lewis’s Cambridge appointment recognized his scholarship in older English literature, especially medieval and Renaissance texts. His public reputation as a Christian writer and author of fantasy grew alongside this academic work, but the professorship itself was a literary and historical appointment rather than a theology post.