Which Cambridge university college appointed C.S. Lewis to a fellowship in 1954?

Magdalene College appointed C.S. Lewis to a fellowship in 1954. The Cambridge college became his academic base after he left Oxford for the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Lewis was elected to the Cambridge professorship in 1954, and his fellowship at Magdalene gave him a place within the university’s collegiate structure. He continued writing and teaching there while maintaining connections with Oxford, where he had spent most of his earlier academic career.

The name can cause confusion because Cambridge has a Magdalene College, pronounced differently from Oxford’s Magdalen College, which lacks a final “e.” Lewis’s earlier Oxford fellowship was at Magdalen College; his Cambridge fellowship was at Magdalene College. The distinction identifies the two institutions precisely.