Which college employed C.S. Lewis as a tutor and fellow from 1925 until 1954?

Magdalen College employed C.S. Lewis as a tutor and fellow from 1925 until 1954.

Lewis was elected to a fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1925 and taught English there for nearly three decades. His Oxford years included his developing academic reputation, his friendships with Tolkien and other Inklings, and his growing public profile as a Christian writer.

Magdalen is one of Oxford’s constituent colleges and was founded in the fifteenth century. Lewis’s academic work there focused on English literature, and his teaching career continued while he wrote books for both scholarly and general readers. He left Oxford in 1954 when he became the first holder of the English Literature chair at Cambridge University’s Magdalene College.

The similar names can cause confusion: Oxford’s Magdalen College is spelled without a final “e,” while Cambridge’s Magdalene College includes the “e.” Lewis’s move was therefore from Magdalen College, Oxford, to Magdalene College, Cambridge.