College was established in June1993+10.65438. Its predecessor was the Department of Foreign Languages, which was established in June 195 1. Existing staff 192, including professor 18 and associate professor 40. Full-time students 1244, including 33 doctoral students and master students 18 1 person. 1998 has doctoral programs in English language and literature, and 20 10 has doctoral programs in foreign language and literature. There are five doctoral programs and two master programs in English, Russian, Japanese, French and foreign language linguistics and applied linguistics. The college also edited and published the magazine "Theory and Practice of Foreign Language Teaching". In addition, the college has established long-term cooperative relations with the United States, Britain, Australia, Japan, Germany, France, Russia and other countries, and sends students abroad for exchange and study every year. At the same time, the college also recruits nearly 100 visiting scholars, senior teachers and masters of education at home and abroad every year.

It has successfully held high-level forums to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the 3rd China International Symposium on Australian Studies, the International Symposium on patrick white's Works, the International Symposium on Publishing Australian Studies Books in China, the Proust Symposium, and the International Symposium on Civil Society and Cultural Diversity in the Asia-Pacific Region. 20 10, 10, 12 hosted the International Symposium on Contemporary Linguistics and the 12th International Symposium on Australian Studies in China.

In terms of teaching, the college has won 2 national excellent courses, 6 Shanghai excellent courses, Shanghai famous teacher 1 name, and 6 teaching materials have won provincial and ministerial awards for Excellence. In scientific research, he won the third prize of the Ministry of Education and outstanding scientific research achievements in Shanghai; He has published more than 20 monographs on various disciplines and more than 70 papers on CSSCI, and won 6 projects of the National Social Science Fund, 2 projects of the Ministry of Education, 1 for outstanding talents in the new century, and 4 projects of Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan. Some of these projects have the ability to fill the gaps in academic circles at home and abroad.