Which university employed C.S. Lewis as a fellow and tutor from 1925?

The University of Oxford employed C.S. Lewis as a fellow and tutor from 1925. He joined Oxford’s Magdalen College as a fellow and tutor in English, beginning the academic career most closely associated with his name.

Lewis remained at Magdalen for nearly three decades. He taught English literature, wrote scholarly works, and developed a reputation as an exceptionally engaging lecturer and conversationalist. His Oxford friendships included J.R.R. Tolkien and other members of the informal literary group known as the Inklings.

Lewis later became a professor at Cambridge, which can cause confusion about his main institutional affiliation. Cambridge appointed him to a chair in medieval and Renaissance English in 1954, but Oxford was his academic home from 1925 until that move. His Oxford years overlapped with the publication of both major scholarship and popular Christian writing.