Oxford hosted most of C.S. Lewis’s academic career. He studied at University College, Oxford, and later taught at several Oxford colleges before becoming a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College.
Lewis held a fellowship at Magdalen from 1925 until 1954. During those years he taught English literature, wrote major works of fiction and Christian apologetics, and participated in the Inklings, an informal literary group that met mainly at Oxford.
In 1954, Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge University, where he became the first holder of the newly established chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College. The similar names can cause confusion: Magdalen College is in Oxford, while Magdalene College is in Cambridge.
Oxford therefore describes the setting of the longest and most influential part of Lewis’s teaching career, even though Cambridge was his final academic appointment.