Which university appointed C.S. Lewis to its first English literature fellowship in 1925?

The University of Oxford appointed C.S. Lewis to his first English literature fellowship in 1925.

Lewis became a fellow and tutor in English at Magdalen College, one of Oxford’s constituent colleges. He held that position from 1925 until 1954, teaching students, researching medieval and Renaissance literature, and developing the intellectual reputation that later supported his popular writing.

His Oxford years included friendships and discussions with writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams. Lewis’s academic work was not limited to Christian apologetics: he wrote major studies of English literature, including The Allegory of Love and English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.

Some accounts describe Lewis simply as an Oxford professor, but his early Oxford post was a college fellowship and tutoring position. In 1954, he left Oxford for Cambridge, where he became the first holder of a newly established chair in medieval and Renaissance English.