The College of Liberal Arts is a pillar department of Nanjing Normal University with the reputation of "Jiangnan Literature Hub", a southeast town of higher liberal arts education in China, and an important academic base for talent cultivation and scientific research of basic liberal arts disciplines in China.

From 65438 to 0997, the Chinese Department was upgraded to the College of Literature and entered the third period of great development. In particular, 1998, 1999, 200 1 three-year leap in discipline construction has built a high starting point and a solid development platform for the College of Arts, paving a broad prospect for the rapid development of the new century.

The proportion of professors, associate professors and lecturers is 43%: 32%: 16%, with young and middle-aged teachers around 40 as the backbone, forming a good academic echelon with reasonable age-title-education ratio.