Which university employed C.S. Lewis as a tutor from 1925 to 1954?

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The University of Oxford employed C.S. Lewis as a tutor from 1925 to 1954. He taught English at Magdalen College, one of Oxford’s constituent colleges, while developing his career as a writer and Christian thinker.

Lewis became a Fellow and tutor at Magdalen in 1925. His Oxford years included friendships with writers such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams, and they helped form the informal literary group known as the Inklings.

In 1954, Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge University, where he became the first holder of the newly created chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. Because he taught at both universities, summaries of his academic career can sometimes blur the dates and institutions.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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