Which Oxford college was C.S. Lewis’s academic home from 1925 to 1954?

Magdalen College was C.S. Lewis’s Oxford academic home from 1925 to 1954.

Lewis became a fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1925. He taught there for nearly three decades, lived in college accommodation for much of that period, and became closely associated with the college’s medieval buildings, gardens, and scholarly community.

Magdalen was also significant because Lewis’s Oxford friendships and literary activities grew around it. J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and other writers formed part of the wider circle known as the Inklings. Lewis’s rooms at Magdalen were among the group’s meeting places.

The college is sometimes confused with Magdalene College, Cambridge, where Lewis held his Cambridge professorship from 1954. The names are pronounced similarly but refer to separate institutions in different universities. Lewis remained associated with Cambridge for the rest of his academic career, but Magdalen College, Oxford, was the setting of his longest university appointment.