Pillen, A. (forthcoming) A Floating World: Optical-Material Experiments. In  AD Printworks: Artefacts and Agencies  (guest-edited by Mark Dorian, Riet Eeckhout and Arnaud Hendrickx, Axiomatic Editions) – November 2025

Pillen, Alex (2024). Endurance: Speaking Kurdish in a Warped World. Boston, Leiden: Brill.

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

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

Argenti-Pillen, A.M. (2007). Obvious Pretence: For fun or for real? Cross-cousin and international relations in Sri Lanka. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2 (13): 313-329.

Argenti-Pillen, A.M. (eb 2013, hb 2003). Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania University Press.