Which university employed C.S. Lewis from 1925 until 1954?

The University of Oxford employed C.S. Lewis from 1925 until 1954. He first worked as a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, teaching English literature and developing a reputation as a gifted lecturer and scholar.

Lewis remained at Oxford for nearly three decades. During that period he wrote important literary criticism, including The Allegory of Love, and published influential Christian works such as The Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity. He was also part of the Inklings, an informal Oxford literary group that included J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.

In 1954 Lewis left Oxford for the University of Cambridge, where he became the first holder of the newly established chair of Medieval and Renaissance English. He continued living near Oxford and remained connected with friends there.

The two universities are therefore easy to confuse. Oxford was Lewis’s long-term academic home, while Cambridge was the institution that appointed him during the final decade of his career.