Which university employed C.S. Lewis as an English literature professor from 1954?

Cambridge University employed C.S. Lewis as an English literature professor from 1954.

Lewis became the first holder of the newly created chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954. He remained there until his death in 1963. The appointment marked a major change after decades connected with Oxford.

Before Cambridge, Lewis had taught at Oxford University, first at Magdalen College and later as a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College. His Oxford career included extensive work in medieval and Renaissance literature, as well as his writing on Christianity and imaginative fiction.

A common mix-up is to identify Lewis only with Oxford because that is where he spent most of his academic career and met the Inklings. Cambridge was nevertheless his final academic home, and its position recognized him as a leading literary scholar rather than solely as a popular religious writer.