Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge)

The chair in Medieval and Renaissance English (1954) is a professorship in English literature at Cambridge University. It was created in 1954 for C. S. Lewis, and is unusual among professorships in this field in uniting 'medieval' and 'renaissance' categories and fields of study.

Professors of Medieval and Renaissance English C. S. Lewis, 1954 J. A. W. Bennett, 1964 John Stevens, 1978 Jill Mann, 1988 James Simpson, 1999 Helen Cooper, 2005 Nicolette Zeeman, 2016 Anthony Bale, 2024

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