Which college at Cambridge employed C.S. Lewis from 1954?

Magdalene College employed C.S. Lewis at Cambridge from 1954.

In 1954, Lewis left his long Oxford fellowship at Magdalen College and became the first occupant of the chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He held that post until his death in 1963. The two college names are easy to confuse because Oxford's Magdalen is pronounced differently and lacks the final “e.”

Lewis's Cambridge appointment recognized his standing as a literary scholar, not merely his popularity as a Christian writer or children's author. His lectures and criticism addressed medieval and Renaissance texts, the periods that had shaped his own reading and imagination.

Cambridge also brought Lewis closer to a broader intellectual circle, including literary colleagues and friends. He continued to write and publish during these years, producing works such as Surprised by Joy and Till We Have Faces earlier in the decade and The Four Loves in 1960. His Cambridge career ended when he died in Oxfordshire in 1963.