Pillen, Alex (2016).  Language, translation, trauma. Annual Review of Anthropology, 45, 95-111.

Pillen, Alex (2017). The space that will never be filled. Sharp communication and the simultaneity of opposites. Current Anthropology, 58(6), 718-738.

Pillen, Alex  & Matthews Emma-Kate (2022). Natural language modelled and printed in 3D: A Multi-disciplinary approach. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio), 9, 72.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01089-5

Pillen, Alex (in press, expected October 31st 2024). Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World. Boston, Leiden: Brill.