STEVENS POINT, Wis. – A Wisconsin college student sued her poetry professor for a better grade after she received an F in alleged retaliation for her complaints about “lesbians, illicit sexual relationships, incest and frequent swearing” in the course material.

Donna Kikkert, 59, attended professor Patricia Dyjak’s Advanced Creative Writing Poetry course at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point during the 2014-15 school year, but was disappointed when assignments focused mostly on perverted sex topics and profanity, according to the lawsuit filed in Portage County Circuit Court.

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Kikkert complained about the materials in an email to Dyjak and her boss, English Department chairman Michael Williams, and suggested that Dyjak include other topics, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.

“The central component and thesis of the class has been that of a feminist focus, with an overemphasis on the sexual, gays and lesbians and, furthermore, poems which incorporate swearing and negativism to accentuate their point,” she wrote. “Perhaps consideration might be given to one or two of the texts consisting of those poets who are considered to be the classics (ie., Yeats, Frost, Poe, Dickinson, to name a few) – ‘raising the bar,’ as it were.”

Kikkert wrote in the lawsuit that “Dyjak choose five poetry textbooks … which focused on lesbians, illicit sexual relationships, incest and frequent swearing” and noted that “such choices were consistent with Ms. Dyjak’s frequent referral, during class periods, to the incestuous treatment she had received as a child and her dysfunctional relationship with her ex-husband.”

The professor was apparently not conducive to the constructive criticism, and allegedly sent an email to Kikkert explaining that she specifically selected course materials that “would appeal to … my lgbt students,” the student alleged in the lawsuit.

“We all need to have respect for each other,” Dyjak allegedly wrote. “The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point has a ‘zero tolerance’ policy regarding intolerance.”

Kikkert later complained to Williams that Dyjak lifted her shirt in class to show off her back tattoo and exposed her bare breasts.

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The lawsuit alleges Dyjak is essentially a lousy professor because she’s obsessed with herself, highlights the course’s ambiguous grading system, and argues that Kikkert’s “performance in this class substantiated my receiving an A.”

Kikkert asked the court to force Dyjak to change her grade from an F to an A and to “suspend the employment of Ms. Dyjak at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a period of one year without pay” or fire her.

The Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office is defended Dyjak because she’s a public employee, and a Portage County judge dismissed the case late last month, court records show.

In Assistant Attorney General Katherine Spitz wrote that “Kikkert’s complaint fails because it does not provide any legal authority or other basis (and the defendant’s counsel is aware of none) upon which this court could require Dyjak to teach the work of certain poets in a college course … or to provide any particular student with the grade that student believes she deserves, rather than the one she earned.”

UWSP officials defended Dyjak and her “academic freedom.”

“We’re interested in teaching you the skills necessary to think and form your own judgements,” UWSP Prevost Greg Summers told the Journal Sentinel. “Part of that is encountering ideas that you may not be comfortable with and you may not agree with, and being able to encounter those ideas, empathize with them enough to take them seriously and then form your own judgement.”

Kikkert argued that she’d also like to encounter some “mainstream” ideas, as well.

“I think professors need to incorporate having a sensitivity to what students would consider as wanting to learn,” she told the news site.