Which Cambridge university chair did C.S. Lewis hold from 1954 until his death?

C.S. Lewis held the Cambridge chair of Medieval and Renaissance English from 1954 until his death.

The position was established for Lewis at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954, after his long teaching career at Magdalen College, Oxford. The chair reflected his expertise in medieval and Renaissance literature, subjects that informed both his scholarship and his fiction. He continued teaching and writing at Cambridge until he died in 1963.

Lewis’s academic work included studies of medieval literary tradition, allegory, and the history of English literature. His 1936 book The Allegory of Love helped establish his reputation as a literary scholar, but his later public fame often came from works such as The Chronicles of Narnia and Mere Christianity. The two Magdalen colleges—Oxford’s Magdalen and Cambridge’s Magdalene—are separate institutions, a distinction that can cause confusion in biographical summaries.