A mature student at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has taken a professor to court, asking the judge to order the staff member to assign her an A for her Advanced Creative Writing Poetry class.

Donna Kikkert, 56, filed the complaint against Professor Patricia Dyjak, claiming that the faculty member's choice of teaching material had alienated 'mainstream" students, and contributed to her receiving an F grade for the class.

"She has swung the pendulum far to the side of LGBT students and, in doing so, has chosen to totally discount the importance and the validity of the mainstream student population," Kikkert argued in her complaint.

She also alleged that her F grade had been 'capricious retaliation' on Dyjak's part in response to Kikkert having made complaints about course content, and about Dyjak's behaviour towards her students.

"For the reading material in this course, Ms Dyjak chose five poetry textbooks ... which focussed on lesbians, illicit sexual relationships, incest and frequent swearing," Kikkert's complaint stated.

"A rational person would surmise these textbook choices to be myopically degrading and insulting to the intelligence of university students, who would have greatly benefited from a balanced study of poets."