Which university did C.S. Lewis join as a professor of Medieval and Renaissance English?

C.S. Lewis joined the University of Cambridge as a professor of Medieval and Renaissance English.

Lewis took the Cambridge chair in 1954, becoming the first holder of the position. He was also a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he continued teaching and writing after many years at Oxford.

His Cambridge appointment did not replace his Oxford career overnight. Lewis had taught English at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925 until 1954, and Oxford remained the setting of much of his intellectual and social life. His move was partly connected with the difficulty he had experienced advancing within Oxford’s English faculty.

Lewis’s academic work covered medieval and Renaissance literature, including authors and traditions that shaped his own fiction. He continued publishing imaginative, theological, and scholarly works while holding the Cambridge post. He died in 1963, less than a decade after beginning the professorship.