Which university employed C.S. Lewis as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature?

Cambridge University employed C.S. Lewis as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature.

Lewis became the first holder of the Cambridge chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954. He remained in that position until his death in 1963. The appointment came after decades of teaching and scholarship at Oxford.

Before moving to Cambridge, Lewis was a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925. His academic reputation rested on literary history and criticism as well as on popular religious writing and fiction. His Oxford career included work on medieval literature, Renaissance texts, and major studies such as The Allegory of Love.

A common mix-up is to name Oxford as the university associated with the professorship. Oxford was central to Lewis’s earlier career, but the specific Cambridge chair made him a professor at Cambridge University. His Cambridge college was Magdalene, spelled without the final “e” used in the Oxford college’s name.