Which university appointed C.S. Lewis to an English professorship in 1954?

The University of Cambridge appointed C.S. Lewis to an English professorship in 1954.

Lewis became the first holder of the newly established Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He moved there after nearly three decades teaching at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he had been a fellow and tutor since 1925.

The Cambridge appointment recognized Lewis as a major literary scholar, not only as a popular Christian writer and children’s author. His academic interests included medieval literature, Renaissance writing, allegory, and the history of English literary culture.

The two institutions are easy to mix up because both Oxford and Cambridge shaped Lewis’s career. Oxford was where he spent most of his teaching life and wrote many celebrated works; Cambridge was the university that gave him his later professorship. He remained at Cambridge until his death in 1963.