Zheng Jie holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and completed postdoctoral studies in Comparative Literature and World Literature at Central China Normal University (GDUFS). She is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of English Language and Culture, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, where she has been honored as a "Yunshan Distinguished Scholar."

Her main research areas include modern and contemporary drama, narratology, and ethical literary criticism. She has presided over 2projectsby the National Social Science Fund, 1 project funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 1 project funded by the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education, and 2 provincial-level fund projects. His representative papers have been published in authoritative core journals such as  The German Quarterly ,  The Brecht Yearbook ,  Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature ,  Foreign Literature Review ,  Foreign Literature Studies , and  Foreign Literature . She has published 1 English-language monograph, 1 Chinese-language monograph, 2 translated works, and 1 textbook. In 2020, she was awarded the First Prize for Teaching Achievements in Higher Education in Guangdong Province.