American Hispanist, scholar, and educator (1936–2019)
Eric Woodfin Naylor (December 6, 1936 – September 16, 2019) was an American Hispanist, scholar and educator.
Naylor was born in Union City, Tennessee. He completed his undergraduate work at The University of the South and a PhD at University of Wisconsin. At Wisconsin, he began studying "El libro de buen amor". He continued studying it and has conducted paleography on the original text. He was a professor emeritus of The University of the South where he served as William R. Kenan Professor of Spanish.
In 2013, he and Professor Jerry R. Rank published a translation and discussion of Alfonso Martínez de Toledo's "Arcipreste de Talavera". Naylor and Rank's work was titled "The Archpriest of Talavera: Dealing with the Vices of Wicked Women and the Complexions of Men" and it was reviewed in "The Medieval Review" and "La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures".
Naylor died on September 16, 2019.
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