While at the Department of French at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, she became the first female Head of Department from 2008 to 2012 and within the same period was first Female Deputy Dean of Arts. Professor Doris Obieje transferred her services to the Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, National Open University of Nigeria as Professor in December 2017. She was Treasurer of the University French Teachers’ Association of Nigeria, and was once Vice-President of the same Association. She is Member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters and Fellow, Nigerian Institute of Translators and Interpreters.

Professor Obieje has published in peer – reviewed Books and Journals at Local, National and International Levels. She has supervised and mentored Undergraduate and Postgraduate students and serves as external examiner at both undergraduate and post graduate levels in many tertiary institutions. She has also participated in the Accreditation Exercise in many universities across the country under the National Universities Commission (NUC).

She currently has been examiner for undergraduate and postgraduate students in French or Foreign Languages departments in Translation, Literature of French Expression, and Linguistics in French. She is the immediate past Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and current Study Centre Director of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), National Open University of Nigeria study centre.

Her area of research include, Caribbean Literature, French and Francophone Literature, especially of women writing. She speaks fluently, reads and writes, French, English, Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo and Igala.