• Royce Fellowship
Kimberly
Beil

Concentration 

Literature

Award Year 

2000

Kimberly plans to write the story of Providence’s Phantom Boxing Club, a place where trainer Artie Artwell teaches life lessons along with punches, inspiring his boxers to have confidence in themselves. Beil will tell Artwell’s story from the perspective of a Brown student, but also as a boxer and one of his devoted students.

Kim received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Irvine. She is currently a professor in Visual Studies at UC Irvine. Kim’s teaching and research focuses on questioning the visual conventions that attend the construction of photographic meaning, and she is broadly interested in photography’s relation to the production of modern and contemporary art and visual culture. Her most recent research has investigated the use of photographs as illustrations in written texts, from nineteenth-century art history textbooks and museum guidebooks to images published online on Flickr and Google Art Project.