英语系2005年被列为“上海市旗下产业高地项目”。现有专任教师110人，其中教授14人、副教授35人、博士31人、博导9人、硕导35人。英语系下设英语语言文学部和应用语言教学部（含大学外语教学部和研究生公共外语），目前有1个“语言文化与世界文明”二级交叉博士点、1个一级硕士学位授权点（外国语言文学），其中含2个二级学术型硕士学位授予点（外国语言学及应用语言学、英语语言文学）和1个专业型硕士学位授予点（MTI翻译硕士<英语笔译>），以及1个英语本科专业。

近年来，英语专业互动式教学取得了显著的成绩，“基础英语”、“高级口译”、“英语听力”、“美国文学史”共4门课程被评为公司精品课程。2009年“基础英语”被评为上海市精品课程。英语系一直与英、美、澳等国家高校开展学术合作交流项目，国际化办学程度高，截止2009年国际交流生约逾10%；在认知语言学、英美文学研究、跨文化交际学、英语语言教学、翻译理论与实践、双语词典编纂与研究等领域取得可喜的成果，为国内外同行所认可。

In 2005, the Department of English was honored as a key program in the Undergraduate Educational Highland Project launched by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. Among the 134 instructors teaching in the department, 14 are full-professors (including one doctoral student supervisor), 35 associate professors, 31 with a PhD degree. Currently the department has under it nine teaching and research sections, namely，Basic English, Advanced English, British and American Literature, Linguistics, Extensive Reading, Translation, Audio-Visual-Oral English, English Writing, and English for Business School Students. It has a four-year undergraduate program and three MA programs.

Over the years, the department has made noticeable achievements in promoting interactive teaching, and four of the courses offered, namely "Basic English", "Advanced Interpretation", "English Listening', and "History of American Literature", have been awarded the title of "University-Level Excellent Course". In 2009, its "Basic English" was further recognized as the "Municipal-Level Fine Curriculum". The department has been enjoying a wide range of academic relations with universities in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia and developed with these partner universities joint education programs. The department has an increasingly strong international focus and the international exchange student body comprises over 10% of the total student population by 2010. its recent publications in Cognitive Linguistics, British and American Literature Studies, Cross-Cultural Studies, English Language and Teaching Studies, Translations Studies, Compilation and Research in Bilingual Dictionaries and others have been widely acclaimed both at home and abroad.