Нistorical poetics, genre analysis, theory and history of Russian lyric poetry, Contemporary poetry.
Research projects:
Since May 2010 till December 2012 was supervising the implementation of the government contract N P658 on the following subject: “The formation of genre system of the Russian poetry of the 19th-20th centuries based on the innovative genre analysis method of a lyrical work” within the framework of Federal Target Program “Scientific and Academic Staff of Innovative Russia”.
Since 2013 - Head of the Center for the Study of Contemporary Poetry of SFedU.
V. I. Kozlov is a regular author of the federal literary magazines “Arion”, “Znamya”, “Voprosi literaturi”, “Novy Mir”, where his poems, critical articles, literary research articles and essays are published.
In 2016 - a member of the jury of the literary award "Russian Booker".
From 2007 to the present - editor-in-chief of the business magazine "Expert-Yug".