Which university did C.S. Lewis join as a Fellow and tutor in English in 1925?

C.S. Lewis joined Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Fellow and tutor in English in 1925.

Magdalen College became the main institutional setting of Lewis’s academic career for nearly three decades. He taught English literature there and lived in Oxford, where he developed close friendships with scholars including J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams. His work at Magdalen supported his writing in medieval literature, literary criticism, apologetics, and fiction.

Lewis had studied at University College, Oxford, and had also worked as a philosophy tutor before securing the Magdalen fellowship. His Oxford years made the city central to his public identity, although he was born in Belfast and later moved to Cambridge.

In 1954, Lewis became the first holder of the medieval and Renaissance English chair at Magdalene College, Cambridge. That later appointment is a common source of confusion. The 1925 fellowship and tutoring post was at Magdalen College, Oxford, not Cambridge or another Oxford college.