jeslyn sharnita amarasekera; shanthini pillai.  (2022).  navigating sri lankan identity in a state of crisis the role of the creative imaginary.  - 3l language, linguistics, literature the southeast asian journal of english language studies.  245-261. 

shanthini pillai.  (2022).  gastronomic aesthetics of a french catholic missionary during the japanese occupation of malaya.  - sare: southeast asian review of english.  39-57. 

shanthini pillai.  (2022).  diary of a french missionary: penang during the japanese occupation by marcel rouhan (review).  - journal of the malaysian branch of the royal asiatic society.  125-127. 

shanthini pillai.  (2021).  unequal discursivities and the symbolic capital of malaysian indian scholarship.  - international journal of the sociology of language.  241-251. 

dhayapari perumal, shanthini pillai, melissa shamini periasamy.  (2021).  a case study on picture book application for children as semiotic technology in representing asian identities.  - kritika kultura.  27-59. 

shanthini pillai.  (2021).  the synekism of catholic faith and citizenship in peninsular malaysia the influence of the société des missions étrangères de paris (mep).  - social sciences and missions.  335-365. 

p.dhayapari perumal, shanthini pillai and melissa shamini perry.  (2021).  semiotic technology as material resonance of postcolonial aesthetics in digital children's picture book apps.  - gema online journal of language studies.  125-146. 

shanthini pillai.  (2020).  french and diasporic tamil catholic mobilities in colonial malaya.  - sojourn journal of social issues in southeast asia.  217-242. 

shanthini pillai,pauline pooi yin leong, melissa shamini perry, angeline wong wei wei.  (2019).  dialogical intersections of tamil and chinese ethnic identity in the catholic church of peninsular malaysia.  - asiatic-iium journal of english language and literature.  167-181. 

ramesh loganathan, shanthini pillai, pramela krish.  (2019).  accented spatial representations in the internal exilic eelam-tamil film viduthalai moochu.  - kritika kultura.  476-502. 

shanthini pillai, melissa shamini periasamy.  (2019).  forum kritika on the shifting frontiers of literary studies in the twenty-first century.  - kritika kultura.  377-387. 

angeline wong wei wei, shanthini pillai, ong puay liu.  (2018).  the golden era of the malaysian film industry cross-cultural dialogue and negotiations of ethnicity in a budding nation.  - kajian malaysia.  . 

ramesh loganathan, shanthini pillai, pramela krish.  (2018).  space-time formations in the south indian tamil popular film kannathil muthamittal.  - international journal of asia pacific studies.  . 

shanthini pillai.  (2017).  modern asian ecclesiastical interconnections : catholic tamil nadu and its diaspora in malaysia.  - the australian journal of anthropology.  165-179. 

shanthini pillai, p.shobha menon, ravichandran vengadasamy.  (2016).  the marginalisation of malaysian texts in the english language curriculum and its impact on social cohesion in malaysian classrooms.  - kajian malaysia.  25-58. 

jeslyn sharnita amarasekera and shanthini pillai.  (2016).  bound by the sea: transnational sri lankan writings and reconciliation with the homeland.  - 3l: language, linguistics, literature-the southeast asian journal of english language studies.  19-27. 

manohari rasagam and shanthini pillai.  (2016).  interpolating south asian transnational interpolating south asian transnational heritage: allegory in south asian diasporic metropolitan young adult fiction..  - international journal of asia pacific studies.  41-60. 

jose mario c. francisco & shanthini pillai.  (2015).  christianity from the margins in southeast asia.  - kritika kultura.  82-90. 

manohari rasagam and shanthini pillai.  (2015).  interpolating south asian spaces and transnational habitation in tanuja desai hidier`s born confused.  - 3l the southeast asian journal of english language studies.  89-101. 

jeslyn sharnita amarasekera and shanthini pillai.  (2015).  re engaging sri lanka as a site for reconciliation or a perpetuation of trauma roma tearnes brixton beach.  - south asian diaspora.  97-109. 

amarasekera j.s., pillai s..  (2015).  re-engaging sri lanka as a site for reconciliation or a perpetuation of trauma: roma tearne's brixton beach.  - south asian diaspora.  97-109. 

jose mario c. francisco & shanthini pillai.  (2015).  forum kritika on christianity and nation in southeast asia.  - kritika kultura.  82-240. 

shanthini pillai.  (2015).  the intertwining vines of liturgy, ethnicity, and nationhood : the nativized imaginary of the malaysian catholic community.  - logos: a journal of catholic thought and culture.  94-112. 

pillai s..  (2014).  the intertwining vines of liturgy, ethnicity, and nationhood: the nativized imaginary of the malaysian catholic community.  - logos (united states).  94 - 112. 

shanthini pillai.  (2013).  syncretic cultural multivocality and the malaysian popular musical imagination.  - kajian malaysia.  31(1):1-18. 

shanthini pillai.  (2012).  memory and the diasporic creative imagination: preeta samarasan`s evening is the whole day.  - kritika kultura.  18:44-56. 

shanthini pillai & sharenee philomena paramasivam.  (2011).  from the fringes of the diasporic garment: creative pageants of indian christian identity from malaysia and singapore.  - south asian diaspora.  3(1): 71-88. 

chitra sankaran, shanthini pillai.  (2011).  transnational tamil television and diasporic imaginings.  - international journal of cultural studies.  14(3):277-289. 

pillai s..  (2010).  essentialism and the diasporic native informant: malaysia in hsu ming teo`s love and vertigo.  - gema online journal of language studies.  10(1):3-15. 

shanthini pillai, ganakumaran subramaniam.  (2009).  through the coils of memory and ethnicity: the malaysian indian journey to nationhood.  - european journal of social sciences.  7(3):133-148. 

shanthini pillai.  (2007).  mythical tales and perilous psalms.  - hecate's australian women's book review.  19(2):14-15.