Which Oxford college was C.S. Lewis’s academic home for most of his teaching career?

Magdalen College was C.S. Lewis’s academic home for most of his teaching career.

Lewis became a Fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1925. He remained there for nearly three decades, teaching, writing and participating in the college’s intellectual life. His Oxford years at Magdalen covered the period in which many of his best-known works were created.

His connection with Magdalen is also part of the story of the Inklings, the informal literary group associated with Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. The group met primarily at The Eagle and Child pub, but their friendships and conversations were rooted in Oxford’s academic community.

Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge in 1954, when he became the first holder of the newly established chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Magdalen and Magdalene are different colleges: Oxford has Magdalen College, while Cambridge has Magdalene College.