Eric Woodfin Naylor

{{Short description|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.{{cite web|last1=Poole|first1=Kevin R.|title=16.10.32, Naylor and Rank, trans., The Archpriest of Talavera by Alonso Martînez de Toledo|url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22779/28667|website=The Medieval Review|accessdate=January 8, 2017|date=1 January 2016}}{{cite journal|last1=Kirby|first1=Steven D.|title=The Archpriest of Talavera: Dealing with the Vices of Wicked Women and the Complexions of Men by Alonso Martínez de Toledo (review)|journal=La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures|date=August 12, 2015|volume=43|issue=2|pages=111–118|doi=10.1353/cor.2015.0000|s2cid=161524835 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/588544/pdf|issn=1947-4261}}

Naylor died on September 16, 2019.{{cite web |title=In Memoriam: Eric Woodfin Naylor |url=http://www.sewanee.edu/academics/medieval-studies/news/in-memoriam-eric-woodfin-naylor.php |publisher=University of the South |date=September 16, 2019}}