Which university appointed C.S. Lewis to a Cambridge professorship in 1954?

The University of Cambridge appointed C.S. Lewis to a professorship in 1954. He became the first holder of the newly established Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Lewis had spent most of his academic career at Oxford, where he taught English literature and became associated with Magdalen College. His move to Cambridge did not erase that Oxford connection; instead, it gave him a second major university base during the final decade of his life.

The appointment is often confused with Lewis’s Oxford career because Oxford was the institution most closely linked with his teaching, friendships, and literary circle. Cambridge was the later professorship. His Cambridge work continued his interests in medieval literature, Renaissance writing, theology, and the history of English literary culture.