Which university employed C.S. Lewis as an English literature tutor for most of his academic career?

The University of Oxford employed C.S. Lewis as an English literature tutor for most of his academic career.

Lewis studied at Oxford and later became a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he taught English literature for several decades. His Oxford career connected him with scholars such as J.R.R. Tolkien and helped establish his reputation as a medieval and Renaissance literature expert.

In 1954, Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge University, where he became the first holder of the newly created chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. This move explains a common source of confusion: Lewis taught at both universities, but Oxford was the institution associated with the majority of his academic career.

His academic work and his popular writing developed together. Knowledge of medieval allegory, myth, and literary tradition strongly influenced both his criticism and his fiction.