Which Cambridge college did C.S. Lewis teach at after joining the university in 1954?

C.S. Lewis taught at Magdalene College, Cambridge, after becoming the university’s first Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature in 1954. He held that Cambridge chair until his retirement in 1963.

Before Cambridge, Lewis had spent most of his academic career at Oxford, first as a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later as a professor at Oxford University. The similar names of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge, are a common source of mistakes.

His Cambridge appointment gave him a second major academic setting while he continued writing and speaking about literature and Christianity. Lewis remained associated with Oxford in public memory, but his final university post was at Magdalene College in Cambridge.